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Beginning Server-Side Application Development with Angular

By : Bram Borggreve
Book Image

Beginning Server-Side Application Development with Angular

By: Bram Borggreve

Overview of this book

Equip yourself with the skills required to create modern, progressive web applications that load quickly and efficiently. This fast-paced guide to server-side Angular leads you through an example application that uses Angular Universal to render application pages on the server, rather than the client. You'll learn how to serve your users views that load instantly, while reaping all the SEO benefits of improved page indexing. With differences of just 200 milliseconds in performance having a measurable impact on your users, it's more important than ever to get server-side right.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)

What Is a Service Worker?


A service worker is a script that the browser runs in the background which acts as a network proxy to manage network requests programmatically. It sits between the network and the device and caches content, enabling an offline experience for the user.

In addition to caching data, it can also synchronize API data in the background and add things like push notifications.