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Service Worker Development Cookbook

By : Sean Amarasinghe
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Service Worker Development Cookbook

By: Sean Amarasinghe

Overview of this book

It would be nice to have web apps that work offline and send push notifications. This is now possible with Service Workers, which can add native-like functionality to your web apps without requiring a download. This book will get your mobile and web apps functioning without Internet connectivity, improve performance and network interaction in order to increase the level of availability, and show you how to build performant applications that seamlessly integrate with third-party APIs. We’ll show you how to add Service Worker functionality to web apps and sites, access offline content through basic and advanced techniques, and build powerful interactive system notifications. We’ll also teach you about cache functionality and assets to provide immediate load even over narrow connections. We conclude by giving you various tips to improve app performance, including the background sync technique. By the end of this book, you’ll know build high performing and faster web and mobile applications with Service Workers.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Service Worker Development Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction


You might have encountered, from time to time, having broken images appear on certain websites. This could be because of a number of reasons: the image might not have existed, it might not have been named properly, or the file path in the code might have been incorrect. Whatever the reason it might be, it could impact your website, and could lead the user to think that your website is broken.

Images are not the only resources that are essential to your website. Cascading style sheets (CSS), JavaScript files, and font files are also necessary to make your website appear functional. In this chapter, we are going to look at how to load these resources offline.

Before we start working on loading resources offline, let's find out how we can notify the user that the network is unavailable.