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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

About the Reviewer

Amar Gharat focuses on developing creative and unique web applications using LAMP, open source, and cutting-edge technology as well as delivering work on time to meet the deadlines with dedicated team work.

He has a total work experience of 11 years, and has executed projects from design, development, production, and support. He defines requirements and plans project life cycle deployment.

He also has knowledge of SDLC and process models, and defines resources and schedules for project implementation. He plans and schedules project deliverables, goals, milestones, and tracking them to closure.

Strong leadership and people management are Amar's core skills.

He develops and delivers progress reports, proposals, requirements documentation, and presentations; submits status reports from the project team, analyzes results, and troubleshoots problem areas; manages changes in project scope, identifies potential crises, and devises contingency plans.

He defines project success criteria and disseminates them to involved parties throughout the project life cycle, and helps build, develop, and grow any business relationships vital to the success of the project.

Research, innovate, propose, and discuss product area improvements is what he believes in, and he works on clear requirements with business managers and product managers. He gets projects developed using agile, and is responsible for code reviews, documentation, and maintenance of applications. He's also responsible for core product metrics and end-to-end responsibility for programming of new pages/microsites.

He develops internal web-based interfaces, and provides technical leadership to team members. He's known for delivering time-based task assignments, and is an expert in unit testing.

Amar is also experienced in portal management.