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Progressive Web Application Development by Example

You're reading from   Progressive Web Application Development by Example Develop fast, reliable, and engaging user experiences for the web

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787125421
Length 354 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Chris Love Chris Love
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Preface 1. Introduction to Progressive Web Apps 2. Creating a Home Screen Experience with a Web Manifest FREE CHAPTER 3. Making Your Website Secure 4. Service Workers – Notification, Synchronization, and Our Podcast App 5. The Service Worker Life Cycle 6. Mastering the Cache API - Managing Web Assets in a Podcast Application 7. Service Worker Caching Patterns 8. Applying Advanced Service Worker Cache Strategies 9. Optimizing for Performance 10. Service Worker Tools 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Using the request method to determine the caching strategy

One of the magical aspects of HTTP is its use of different properties to trigger actions. The HTTP method provides a descriptive way to trigger a response. There are a variety of possible HTTP methods, with PUT, GET, POST, and DELETE being the most common methods.

Those methods correspond to create, retrieve, update, and delete (CRUD) actions. Cache is a powerful tool to make your application respond faster, but not all responses should be cached. The HTTP method can be a primary signal to trigger an appropriate caching strategy.

The first two applications, 2048 and Podstr, use only GET requests. The PWA ticket application utilizes POST methods, which should not be cached. When a user registers, buys a ticket, updates their profile, or submits a contact request, a POST request is made to the API.

The API response is typically...

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