Introduction
Leverage your web skills for mobile development
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What you should know
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Using the exercise files
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1. What Is a Progressive Web App?
A little history
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Introduction to Progressive Web Apps
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Choosing an editor
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2. Getting Started
Creating a web app in NetBeans
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Demo of the web app
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Creating the app icon
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Using the Android Emulator
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3. The Web App Manifest
What is the web app manifest?
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Set a Start URL and basic styling
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Test the PWA in the Android Emulator
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Test the PWA in the iOS Simulator
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4. Getting Ready for Service Workers
Moving away from emulators
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Intro to service workers
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Service worker lifecycle
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Getting started with ES6 promises
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PWAs and Chrome DevTools
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5. Service Workers
Registering a service worker
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The install event and caches
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Activating the service worker
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Intercepting requests using Fetch
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Install banner behavior
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Designing the install banner
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Implementing the install banner
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Debugging with Chrome DevTools
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More Chrome DevTools
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Debugging with Safari and the iOS Simulator
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6. Cleaning Up iOS Limitations
What's missing in the iOS implementaton
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Web app install banner: HTML and CSS
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Web app install banner: Update the cache
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Web app install banner: The window.onload event
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Demonstrating the web app install banner
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Launch images and splash screens
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Demonstrating launch images
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7. Notifications and Push APIs
Introduction to notifications
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Requesting permission to show notifications
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Displaying a notification
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Adding data to a notification
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Closing a notification
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Handling the notification click event
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Push messaging overview
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Adding Firebase Cloud Messaging to the project
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Subscribing to push messaging
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Handling push notifications
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Sending a tickle using cURL
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Sending data in a push message
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Installing Mozilla's Web Push library
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Modifying the push event handler
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Modifying the notification click event
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Creating the web push script
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Testing the hosted app
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8. Resources
What's left?
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Browser and device support
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PWA tools and resources
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Ex_Files_VanillaJS_Web_Apps.zip
(32.0 MB)