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Optimize your web projects with Progressive Web Apps

Gain insights into Progressive Web Apps. Delve into service workers, caching strategies, and their advantages. Learn about real-world Angular projects and deploying PWAs using Firebase. Optimize your web solutions efficiently.

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Course Overview

Progressive Web Applications are the state of modern web solutions. With the proper strategies, it is possible to drastically improve the overall performance and providing data even without a network connection. In an increasingly mobile-first world, optimising the time to load web pages can be our business's success. We will start by describing what PWAs are and their advantages over native and plain web applications. We then go deeper analysing fundamental concepts like service workers, caching strateg...Show More

Course Content

Introduction

1 Lessons

Get familiar with progressive web applications and their practical real-world applications.

Course Audience

The Progressive Approach

2 Lessons

Unpack the core of Progressive Web Apps' benefits, functionalities, and their comparison with native apps.

Advantages of PWAs

What is a PWA

Install a PWA on a Device

6 Lessons

Go hands-on with installing and configuring Progressive Web Apps on various devices.

Web App Manifest

Maskable icons

Add To Home Screen (A2HS)

App Icons on Safari

PWACompat Library

Test

Service Workers

4 Lessons

Break down complex ideas about service workers, life cycle, and custom offline pages.

What is a service worker

Life cycle

Test

Create a Custom Offline Page

Caching Strategies

5 Lessons

Take a closer look at caching strategies, their limitations, and the role of Cloud Firestore.

Basic Strategies

More Advanced Caching Strategies

Caching Limitations

Cloud Firestore

Test

PWA Tools and Libraries

5 Lessons

Tackle building, validating, auditing, and publishing Progressive Web Apps using essential tools and libraries.

PWA Builder - Analyse an existing app

PWA Builder - Publish a PWA to Stores

Workbox

Google Lighthouse

Test

Angular PWA

6 Lessons

Master the steps to create, enhance, and configure Angular PWA projects with robust caching and service workers.

Why Angular?

Create an Angular Project

Add PWA Features to a Project

Service Worker Config File

Angular PWA Demo

Test

Deploying our PWA

3 Lessons

Step through deploying PWAs using Firebase and GitHub Pages for easy updates.

Deployment and Hosting

Deploy our PWA to Firebase

Deploy to gh-pages

Wrap up

2 Lessons

Discover the logic behind PWAs' benefits, limitations, resources, and continued exploration.

Conclusion

Further resources

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