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Progressive Web Apps with React

You're reading from   Progressive Web Apps with React Create lightning fast web apps with native power using React and Firebase

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Product type Paperback
Published in Oct 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788297554
Length 302 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Scott Domes Scott Domes
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Preface 1. Creating Our App Structure FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started with Webpack 3. Our App's Login Page 4. Easy Backend Setup With Firebase 5. Routing with React 6. Completing Our App 7. Adding a Service Worker 8. Using a Service Worker to Send Push Notifications 9. Making Our App Installable with a Manifest 10. The App Shell 11. Chunking JavaScript to Optimize Performance with Webpack 12. Ready to Cache 13. Auditing Our App 14. Conclusion and Next Steps

The Cache API

The mechanism we will use for caching is the Web Cache API.

Note that the Mozilla Developer Network defines the Cache API as experimental technology, and as of August 2017, it only has the support of Chrome, Firefox, and the latest version of Opera.

The API specification has a few quirks we need to talk about. First, you can store multiple cache objects in the cache. In this way, we're able to store multiple versions of our cache, named whatever string we like.

That said, the browser has a limit of how much data it can store from any one site. If the cache gets too full, it may simply delete all data from that origin, so our best bet is to store the bare minimum.

However, there's an additional difficulty. Items in the cache never expire, unless explicitly deleted, so if we keep trying to stuff new cache objects into our cache, eventually it'll get...

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