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Progressive Web Apps with React

By : Scott Domes
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Progressive Web Apps with React

By: Scott Domes

Overview of this book

For years, the speed and power of web apps has lagged behind native applications. Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) aim to solve this by bridging the gap between the web apps and native apps, delivering a host of exciting features. Simultaneously, React is fast becoming the go-to solution for building modern web UIs, combining ease of development with performance and capability. Using React alongside PWA technology will make it easy for you to build a fast, beautiful, and functional web app. After an introduction and brief overview of the goals of PWAs, the book moves on to setting up the application structure. From there, it covers the Webpack build process and the process of creating React components. You'll learn how to set up the backend database and authentication solution to communicate with Firebase and how to work with React Router. Next, you will create and configure your web app manifest, making your PWA installable on mobile devices. Then you'll get introduced to service workers and see how they work as we configure the app to send push notifications using Firebase Cloud Messaging. We'll also explore the App Shell pattern, a key concept in PWAs and look at its advantages regarding efficient performance. Finally, you'll learn how to add of?ine capabilities to the app with caching and confirm your progress by auditing your PWA with Lighthouse. Also, you'll discover helper libraries and shortcuts that will help you save time and understand the future of PWA development.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Closing words


Programming is difficult. Learning is difficult. Programming in experimental technologies while learning entirely new concepts is especially difficult. If you completed the tutorial in this book--or even only certain sections of it--you should be proud of the accomplishment.

I sincerely hope what you learned here will be useful for you in your careers. This book has been an exciting journey for me as well. When I started, I was excited about the world of Progressive Web Apps, but by no means an expert. Now, having dived deep into the progressive web, I'm more excited than ever about the possibilities. I hope you share the same feeling.

If you ever want to get in touch, I would love to hear from you--feedback, criticism, questions, or simply conversation. You can find me on Twitter with the handle @scottdomes, on LinkedIn, on Medium as @scottdomes again, or on my site, http://scottdomes.com, where I publish web development tutorials on a wide variety of topics.