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Progressive Web Application Development by Example

Progressive Web Application Development by Example

By : Love
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Progressive Web Application Development by Example

Progressive Web Application Development by Example

By: Love

Overview of this book

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.
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Registering a service worker

Service workers must be registered from a web page. This is done in a normal UI script. Before you call the register method, you should feature detect service worker support. If supported, the navigator object has a serviceWorker property:

if ('serviceWorker' in navigator) {
}

If the browser supports service workers, you can then safely register your service worker. The serviceWorker object has a register method, so you need to supply a URL reference to the service worker script:

if ('serviceWorker' in navigator) {
navigator.serviceWorker.register('/sw.js')
.then(function(registration) {
// Registration was successful
});
}

The serviceWorker.register("sw path"[, options]) function accepts two parameters. The first is the path to the service worker. This path is relative to the site origin or root folder.

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