024 jsAir - Progressive Web Apps with Henrik Joreteg, Ada Rose Edwards, Nolan Lawson, and Ben Kelly

Progressive Web Apps with Henrik Joreteg, Ada Rose Edwards, Nolan Lawson, and Ben Kelly
Description:

A Progressive Web App "uses modern web capabilities to deliver an app-like user experience. They evolve from pages in browser tabs to immersive, top-level apps, leveraging the web's low friction." The JavaScript Air website uses some of these techniques and technologies. Let's learn about this awesome stuff!

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Links, Picks, and Tips:
Henrik JoretegLinks: Introducing Pokedex.org: a progressive webapp for Pokémon fans, Mozilla's SW Cookbook, sw-toolbox (so much good stuff here), and Background Sync
Tips: Sometimes it's just easier to disable registering SW in development. Just helps when you're trying to build/fix other parts of the site., It's very important to test your update process when deploying new versions of apps with SW. It's possible to “brick” a web app since if you successfully register a SW, then push an update that has a JS error that prevents your SW registration code from running. Pushing a new version won't fix it because it won't register the new SW and keeps serving the broken code from the previous SW. , and It's early to say this, but I think GraphQL will eventually replace REST as dominant http API approach for applications.
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