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ASP.NET Core 5 and Angular

You're reading from   ASP.NET Core 5 and Angular Full-stack web development with .NET 5 and Angular 11

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2021
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800560338
Length 746 pages
Edition 4th Edition
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Valerio De Sanctis Valerio De Sanctis
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Getting Ready 2. Looking Around FREE CHAPTER 3. Front-End and Back-End Interactions 4. Data Model with Entity Framework Core 5. Fetching and Displaying Data 6. Forms and Data Validation 7. Code Tweaks and Data Services 8. Back-End and Front-End Debugging 9. ASP.NET Core and Angular Unit Testing 10. Authentication and Authorization 11. Progressive Web Apps 12. Windows, Linux, and Azure Deployment 13. Other Books You May Enjoy
14. Index

Progressive Web Apps

In this chapter, we'll focus on a topic that we just briefly mentioned back in Chapter 1, Getting Ready, when we first talked about the different development patterns for web applications available nowadays: Progressive Web Apps (PWAs).

As a matter of fact, both our HealthCheck and WorldCities apps currently stick to the Single-Page Application (SPA) model, at least for the most part; in the following sections, we'll see how we can turn them into PWAs by implementing several well-established capabilities required by such a development approach.

As we learned in Chapter 1, Getting Ready, a PWA is a web application that uses a modern web browser's capabilities to deliver an app-like experience to users. To achieve this, the PWA needs to meet some technical requirements, including (yet not limited to) a Web App Manifest file and a service worker to allow it to work in offline mode and behave just like a mobile app.

More precisely, here...

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