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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

Making Your Website Secure

It's surprising that no website utilizes HTTPS today. Securing a website was difficult in the past, but most barriers to security have been erased in recent years. Some of those barriers included the price, technical requirements, and performance concerns.

To qualify as a progressive web application, a website must be served via HTTPS. Service workers are gated behind HTTPS because they run in the background and are designed to perform tasks that could compromise privacy if they are not protected.

With reduced and eliminated barriers, search engines and browsers have increased HTTPS's visibility to consumers because of improved search engine rankings, visual queues in the browser, and the gating APIs behind HTTPS:

This means that every website now has incentives to migrate from HTTP to HTTPS. But there are still some issues that you will need...

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