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Progressive Web Application Development by Example
Progressive Web Application Development by Example

Progressive Web Application Development by Example: Develop fast, reliable, and engaging user experiences for the web

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Progressive Web Application Development by Example

Creating a Home Screen Experience with a Web Manifest

Progressive web apps make a website feel like a native app. For a business stakeholder, this gives them the opportunity to use a free app store to engage customers. For real users, it means that the sites they routinely visit can be installed without any friction. Either way, it is a marketing opportunity to increase engagement by delivering a better user experience and an natural way to place their brand's icon in the customer's most important location: their homescreen.

Each platform (operating system and browser) implements a homescreen and how the application is launched in their own way, but most involve some sort of bookmarking process and opening experience driven by the web manifest file.

Chrome for Android places installed PWAs in the application shelf and allows PWAs to be managed like a native app in the...

Why add to homescreen is important

Reengagement is a key advantage that native applications have enjoyed over websites. The presence of their icon on the user's homescreen and app shelves provides quick, visual access to the brand's experience. It's subtle, but that icon is a constant visual reminder of the customer's relationship to the brand.

Browsers have provided a built-in mechanism for us to bookmark websites using favorites for years now, but these lists have become cluttered messes we often forget about. We have also been able to add bookmarks to the desktop, start menu, and even the windows task bar, but the process is manual, and most consumers do not know that it exists.

More modern browsers have started logging pages that you frequently visit and providing bookmarks to these common destinations when you open a new tab. This is an example of making...

Making your PWA iOS web app capable

When Apple introduced iOS, the original app recommendation was to use HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript to create rich client-side user experiences. Apple has not removed web app support and has enhanced some capabilities over time. The iOS web app experience is driven by custom metadata that's added to a web page's HEAD.

Much of the Apple meta data has served as a model for the modern web manifest specification. Before the web manifest specification was created, Chrome on Android integrated support for the Apple meta data to drive a similar experience.

The web app experience on iOS is triggered when your website contains Apple-specific META tags, corresponding icons, and when the user has added your site to their homescreen.

The first piece you need is a png file as the default homescreen icon. The file should be named apple-touch-icon...

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  • • Explore different models and patterns required to develop progressive web applications
  • • Create applications requiring shorter runtime for attracting more users
  • • Study different projects to understand the fundamentals of progressive web applications

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Are you a developer that wants to create truly cross-platform user experiences with a minimal footprint, free of store restrictions and features customers want? Then you need to get to grips with Progressive Web Applications (PWAs), a perfect amalgamation of web and mobile applications with a blazing-fast response time. Progressive Web Application Development by Example helps you explore concepts of the PWA development by enabling you to develop three projects, starting with a 2048 game. In this game, you will review parts of a web manifest file and understand how a browser uses properties to define the home screen experience. You will then move on to learning how to develop and use a podcast client and be introduced to service workers. The application will demonstrate how service workers are registered and updated. In addition to this, you will review a caching API so that you have a firm understanding of how to use the cache within a service worker, and you'll discover core caching strategies and how to code them within a service worker. Finally, you will study how to build a tickets application, wherein you’ll apply advanced service worker techniques, such as cache invalidation. Also, you'll learn about tools you can use to validate your applications and scaffold them for quality and consistency. By the end of the book, you will have walked through browser developer tools, node modules, and online tools for creating high-quality PWAs.

Who is this book for?

Progressive Web Application Development by Example is for you if you’re a web developer or front-end designer who wants to ensure improved user experiences. If you are an application developer with knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, this book will help you enhance your skills in order to develop progressive web applications, the future of app development.

What you will learn

  • • Explore the core principles of PWAs
  • • Study the three main technical requirements of PWAs
  • • Discover enhancing requirements to make PWAs transcend native apps and traditional websites
  • • Create and install PWAs on common websites with a given HTTPS as the core requirement
  • • Get acquainted with the service worker life cycle
  • • Define service worker caching patterns
  • • Apply caching strategies to three different website scenarios
  • • Implement best practices for web performance

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Table of Contents

11 Chapters
Introduction to Progressive Web Apps Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Creating a Home Screen Experience with a Web Manifest Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Making Your Website Secure Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Service Workers – Notification, Synchronization, and Our Podcast App Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
The Service Worker Life Cycle Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Mastering the Cache API - Managing Web Assets in a Podcast Application Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Service Worker Caching Patterns Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Applying Advanced Service Worker Cache Strategies Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Optimizing for Performance Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
Service Worker Tools Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
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