Building Progressive Web Apps: Bringing the power of native to the browser

A very good book on PWA. One of the best I have come across.

Scritto molto bene e comprensibile anche per chi ha poca esperienza con la programmazione web, uno stile chiaro che si segue con piacere! Inoltre l'autore ha messo on-line le varie fasi del progetto demo descritto nel libro, così è possibile esercitarsi "hands-on" con un caso reale.

Loved the book and have understood the requirement of pwa and how to make it work.

Tal's book is the best book on the market (as of November 2018) for service workers and indexedDB. Brought it for those two subjects alone. Tal writes well, with easy to follow steps. If you work as a frontend developer you need an up to date book explaining service workers, assuming you don't already know them. PWAs (Progressive Web Apps) will dominate the next few years. Well worked "gotham_imperial_hotel" example, progressively embellished with each chapter. The gotham example can be gotten from github. (I needed to use Node Version Manager (nvm) to switch to the latest nodejs and then it built/ran with no problems). Even with 5 stars, it will age quickly. Recommend adding these for next version: 1. A dedicated chapter to Google's Workbox library. Probably enough there for another 2-3 chapters, actually. 2. Add a brief reference to these arcane Promise libraries: Q, When, WinJS, RSVP.js. Most of these will fall as roadkill, but should at least be mentioned as alternative Promise libraries. Book contains 12 chapters, seems to stop at ES5 (ECMASCript 2015). For me it is no problem, all of our users have been told to use the latest version of Chrome and Firefox (automatic updates enabled), so we have an up to date user base. We can in theory , go to ES6, but in practice it's a huge task upgrading vast amounts of ancient Javascript. Chapter 1. Introducing Progressive Web Apps. Chapter 2. Your First Service Worker. Chapter 3. The CacheStorage API. Chapter 4. Service Worker Lifecycle and Cache Management. Chapter 5. Embracing Offline-First Chapter 6. Storing Data Locally With IndexedDB. (Loved this chapter! I wanted more details but this was great). Chapter 7. Ensuring offline Functionality with Background Sync. Chapter 8. Service Worker To Page Communication with Post Messages. Chapter 9. Grabbing Homescreen Real Estate with Installable Web Apps. Chapter 10. Reach Out with Push Notifications. Chapter 11. Progressive Webb App UX. Chapter 12. What's Next For PWAs. Useful appendices too: A. Service Workers: A great Opportunity to Adopt ES2015. B. Full-page Interstitials. C. CORS Versus NO-CORS. -jeff

This is a very well written technical book. The author provides useful and succinct explanations for everything that is being done to build the example application. It is easy to follow along with and the chapters are laid-out in a way that the reader can gradually ease into the material. The "gotchas" are well explained, which is something many technical books gloss over.

If you are working as web developer or plan to work as one this book is one of those you must read. Tal Ater wrote a easy to read (and follow) guide on how to make Progressive Web Applications (PWA-s). It follows a clear line from a "normal" web application to a PWA trough two demo applications. With code snippets you have a insight on how things are done. No matter if you are a pro in web dev or just starting at it. It fits the needs of experienced devs and beginners. Of course as pro you can skip some parts that are for beginners but get also deep insights and details. PWA-s are no new technology. They are just a guideline how to use existing technologies and API-s to make a better user experience and a more "native like" web application. I especially like the detailed explanations on Service Workers and Background Sync. Even they are not supported in every browser there are signs and facts that prove that they will be, so prepare yourself for this future. As Jon Snow would say "Service worker is coming" ;) I'm working for more than a year on PWA-s and still found in the book new information's and tips. Even the parts for beginners are interesting to refresh the basic knowledge. I never hat the felling that it gets boring with basic stuff. That happens me often with other books. We also get a great sneak pike in new API-s planed for Browsers. I hope that Tal Ater makes a new book on those when they get released. When I started working with PWA-s I told myself "never buy a book on this topic". I thought it would be not up to date. New things are coming so fast in the web development world that no book could keep up with it. This one proved me that it is possible. The reason is that it explains in detail Browser standards and API-s that should not change a lot in the future or at least have breaking changes. I can't enough recommend this book for everyone who is developing for the web.