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Beginning Server-Side Application Development with Angular

By : Bram Borggreve
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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)

Lesson Objectives


In this lesson, you will:

  • Explore service workers and PWAs

  • Add a service worker to the application that we built in the previous lessons

  • Configure the service worker to convert the app to a progressive web app

  • Explore how to debug a service worker

Let's first understand what a service worker and a progressive web app is.