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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)

Service worker scope

As mentioned earlier, service workers are limited to a single domain. The domain is your site's address, such as https://podcast.love2dev.com/. This is a security feature. Limiting a service worker is known as the service worker's scope. This prevents external scripts from doing bad things to your site.

Imagine if your customer also visits your competition's web site, which installs a service worker. Without limits on service worker scope, they could conceivably manipulate your content or spy on you and your customer's private data.

In fact, a third-party script cannot register a service worker from a page on your site. This should keep external scripts and service providers from using service workers in conjunction with your domain.

A service worker is limited to the origin domain, and it is also limited to the folder in which it is physically...