Tal's book is the best book on the market (as of November 2018) for service workers and indexedDB. Brought it for those two subjects alone. Tal writes well, with easy to follow steps. If you work as a frontend developer you need an up to date book explaining service workers, assuming you don't already know them. PWAs (Progressive Web Apps) will dominate the next few years.
Well worked "gotham_imperial_hotel" example, progressively embellished with each chapter. The gotham example can be gotten from github. (I needed to use Node Version Manager (nvm) to switch to the latest nodejs and then it built/ran with no problems).
Even with 5 stars, it will age quickly. Recommend adding these for next version:
1. A dedicated chapter to Google's Workbox library. Probably enough there for another 2-3 chapters, actually.
2. Add a brief reference to these arcane Promise libraries: Q, When, WinJS, RSVP.js. Most of these will fall as roadkill, but should at least be mentioned as alternative Promise libraries.
Book contains 12 chapters, seems to stop at ES5 (ECMASCript 2015). For me it is no problem, all of our users have been told to use the latest version of Chrome and Firefox (automatic updates enabled), so we have an up to date user base. We can in theory , go to ES6, but in practice it's a huge task upgrading vast amounts of ancient Javascript.
Chapter 1. Introducing Progressive Web Apps.
Chapter 2. Your First Service Worker.
Chapter 3. The CacheStorage API.
Chapter 4. Service Worker Lifecycle and Cache Management.
Chapter 5. Embracing Offline-First
Chapter 6. Storing Data Locally With IndexedDB. (Loved this chapter! I wanted more details but this was great).
Chapter 7. Ensuring offline Functionality with Background Sync.
Chapter 8. Service Worker To Page Communication with Post Messages.
Chapter 9. Grabbing Homescreen Real Estate with Installable Web Apps.
Chapter 10. Reach Out with Push Notifications.
Chapter 11. Progressive Webb App UX.
Chapter 12. What's Next For PWAs.
Useful appendices too:
A. Service Workers: A great Opportunity to Adopt ES2015.
B. Full-page Interstitials.
C. CORS Versus NO-CORS.
-jeff
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From the Preface
Progressive web apps are an exciting new form of modern web apps. These apps leverage the latest web capabilities to deliver an experience that combines the unique features of native mobile apps with the advantages of the web.
This book will help you gain a thorough, practical understanding of modern progressive web app development through hands-on experience.
You will learn how to build web apps that take advantage of features that have so far been the exclusive domain of native apps. You will be able to reach out to your users with push notifications, grab prime real estate on the user’s homescreen, speed up your site significantly, and provide your users with a fully functional app, regardless of their connection.
The book incorporates a real-world, hands-on approach to learning by taking an existing website and chapter by chapter transforming it into a modern progressive web app.
Who This Book Is For
This book is first and foremost intended for developers. If you are looking to leverage your existing web development skills and learn how to build modern progressive web apps, this is the book for you.
The book assumes you have at least a basic understanding of web development using HTML and JavaScript. It does not assume any familiarity with relatively newer additions to JavaScript such as ECMAScript 2015, promises, or ECMAScript 2017’s async functions. If you are already familiar with these modern language constructs, you should be able to skip (or quickly skim) the notes that explain them.
For people in non-technical roles, this book can help provide a familiarity and a general understanding of the capabilities of modern progressive web apps. Many chapters include case studies collected through interviews conducted with teams behind some of the world’s most influential sites, including Twitter, The Washington Post, Housing.com, and Lyft. Whether you are in a managerial position, a designer, a product manager, or any other position that involves making decisions about native or web apps, an understanding of what is possible today will help you be more effective at your job.
What This Book Covers
As you read through this book, you will take a simple website for the fictional Gotham Imperial Hotel and enhance it with service workers so that it loads almost instantaneously (even on the slowest connections), making sure all of its features are available even when your users are completely offline (including seeing their reservations and even making new ones). You will learn how to let users add an icon to launch your progressive web app from their phone’s homescreen. Finally, to complete the native app-like experience, you will add push notifications allowing you to reach out and reengage your users even after they have left your site.
This book also explores some of the important considerations when developing progressive web apps. We will focus on gaining a practical understanding of these concepts in a way that will help you be a more effective developer. Among other things, we will look at helpful developer tools, security considerations, and understanding the service worker lifecycle.
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A "must read" for every Web Developer
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