Chapter 4. Caching and Optimizing
In the previous chapter, we learned how to use frontend techniques to optimize our application or website. Actually, I believe all the frontend developers need to follow this guideline for all types of web development, and not just for mobiles. Some of the techniques that I have discussed in the previous chapter do not have a direct relationship with performance. However, this will create a well-structured environment, which will make it easier to focus on performance.
In this chapter, I will discuss a whole different area that is related to performance optimization, which is really essential and easy to understand. To go through this chapter, you need to have a basic understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
In this chapter, we are going to cover the following topics:
- Caching
- File order of external style sheets and scripts
- Empty source and link attributes
- CSS and JavaScript frameworks
- How to optimize JavaScript
- Load only what is needed
- Reduce the number...
