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Progressive Web Application Development by Example

By : Chris Love
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Progressive Web Application Development by Example

By: Chris 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.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

What is HTTPS?

HTTPS is HTTP within SSL/TLS. TLS establishes a secure tunnel for bidirectional binary data communications between two hosts (the web server and browser). HTTP (Hypertext Transport Text Protocol) is the communications protocol that the client and server use to talk to each other:

So, think of HTTP as water inside a pipe. The pipe is the TLS encryption and the water is the data. The primary difference between HTTPS and the water analogy is that HTTPS is bidirectional and plumbing isn't.

There are other communication protocols that support TLS, such as web sockets (WSS), email (SMTPS), and FTP (FTPS).

HTTPS advantages

The first, and often only, feature you will think of when someone asks about SSL or HTTPS...