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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):

Scott Domes

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Title Page

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewer

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Preface

1. Creating Our App Structure

2. Getting Started with Webpack FREE CHAPTER

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

Summary

That's it! We covered a lot in this chapter in order to get our application's routing solution up and running. If anything is confusing, I invite you to take a look at the React Router docs at https://reacttraining.com/react-router/. Next, we'll go much, much deeper into React, as we finish up our basic application, and then start converting it into a Progressive Web App.

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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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