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Progressive Web Application Development by Example

By : Love
Book Image

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.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)

Configure server auto-redirect of HTTP to HTTPS

Legacy links and natural consumer tendency is to reference URLs via HTTP. Your web server should be configured to send a 301 redirect to the user agent telling them to permanently load the HTTPS address.

A 301 redirect is a permanent address change. You are telling the user agent that the address they are seeking is no longer valid, and to instead go to a new address. By redirecting HTTP to HTTPS, you are effectively telling the world not to ask for insecure content anymore.

This process varies by web server, so consult your platform's documentation for more guidance. Most servers can do this using a simple setting.

If you are using a content-delivery network, and you should for any consumer site, you should be able to configure this redirection in your CDN configuration.

A 301 redirect works by receiving a request from a user...