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Progressive Web Apps with React

You're reading from Progressive Web Apps with React Create lightning fast web apps with native power using React and Firebase

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2017

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788297554

Length 302 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Firebase

Concepts

Progressive Web Apps

Author (1):

Domes

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

www.PacktPub.com

Customer Feedback

Preface

1. Creating Our App Structure FREE CHAPTER

2. Getting Started with Webpack

3. Our App's Login Page

4. Easy Backend Setup With Firebase

5. Routing with React

6. Completing Our App

7. Adding a Service Worker

8. Using a Service Worker to Send Push Notifications

9. Making Our App Installable with a Manifest

10. The App Shell

11. Chunking JavaScript to Optimize Performance with Webpack

12. Ready to Cache

13. Auditing Our App

14. Conclusion and Next Steps

What is progressive enhancement?

Progressive enhancement is a simple idea with big consequences. It comes from a desire to provide an awesome user experience, married with the need for performance. If all our users had perfect, ultrafast connections, we could build an incredible application. However, if all our users have slow connections, we have to settle for a more bare-bones experience.

Progressive enhancement says porque no los dos? Why not both?

Our audience includes both fast connections and slow connections. We should serve both, and serve each appropriately, which means providing the best experience for the best connections and a more stripped-down (but still great) experience for poor connections, and everything in between.

In a sentence, progressive enhancement means our application gets progressively better as our user’s connection improves, but it is always useful and useable. Our application is thus an application adaptive to the connection.

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Authors (1)

Domes

Domes

Scott Domes is a full stack developer who specializes in React, with a passion for building powerful and performant web applications, and for playing with shiny new technologies. Based out of Vancouver, when not coding he's probably out hiking some mountain, or getting lost in a good book. Scott loves to teach and talk about web development, and is always looking to learn new things.

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