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Offline First Web Development

By : Daniel Sauble
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Offline First Web Development

By: Daniel Sauble

Overview of this book

When building mobile apps, it’s easy to forget about the moments when your users lack a good Internet connection. Put your phone in airplane mode, open a few popular apps, and you’ll quickly see how they handle being offline. From Twitter to Pinterest to Apple Maps, some apps might handle being offline better—but very few do it well. A poor offline experience will result in frustrated users who will abandon your app, or worse, turn to your competitor’s apps Expert or novice, this book will teach you everything you need to know about designing and building a rigorous offline app experience. By putting the offline experience first, you’ll have a solid foundation to build upon, avoiding the unnecessary stress and frustration of trying to retrofit offline capabilities into your finished app. This basic principle, designing for the worst-case scenario, could save you countless hours of wasted effort.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Offline First Web Development
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Summary


In this chapter, we put our app online. Thanks to PouchDB, we didn't have to sacrifice any of our offline resiliency and got a lot of nice online functionality for not too much extra effort. If you don't have a user account, you can still get value from the app, and if you do have an account, your lists will stay backed up and can be easily shared with others.

In the next chapter, we'll make the app more communicative about errors and set better expectations when switching between the online and offline modes. This will build trust and help the users to not wonder what's going on during the synchronization process.