Progressive Web Apps (PWA) - From Beginner to Expert

Name: Progressive Web Apps (PWA) - From Beginner to Expert
Rating: 3.7 (84 reviews)

Learn How To Deliver the Best User Experiences using the Best Web Technology

(84 ratings)

1,085 students

Created by Chris Love

Last updated 6/2018

English

What you'll learn

How to build the best in class web applications
What Progresssive Web Apps Are and Why They Should Develop Them
How to craft the perfect Add To Homescreen Experience
Why all websites should be secure and how to secure them
What a Service Worker Is
How to develop Service Workers Using good JavaScript practices
The Service Worker Life Cycle
What Service Worker Caching is
Different Caching Strategies and How to Apply them in a real application
Progressive Web Application and Service Worker Tools
How to polyfil legacy browsers and platforms to provide many PWA features
How to add native push notifications to any website

Requirements

Students should have at least a fundamental understanding of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. It is recommended they also have a computure they can develop web sites and a preferred code editor. The example code is available via GitHub, so basic git source control knowledge is helpful. All code demonstrations are done using Visual Studio code, a free download.

Description

Progressive Web Applications are just web sites that progressively become apps. But how does this happen? It takes skilled developers that understand a new way to create web sites that are fast, reliable and engaging.

In this course you will learn what progressive web applications are, why you need to master them and why your stakeholders want progressive web applications over traditional web sites and native applications.

Businesses of all sizes are discovering the power progressive web applications bring to help them reach and engage their audiences. This means they can increase revenues while decreasing costs. Brands like Twitter, Lyft, The Washington Post, Forbes and Weather channel have all discovered the benefits upgrading to a progressive web application bring.

The success these companies are having is driving more demand for developers skilled in service workers, web manifest, push notifications and more.

You will learn how to craft an app shell so your experience can progressively load with an instant presence. I expose you to everything you need to know about progressive web applications and service workers.

This course starts each section addressing the beginner, assuming you have no prior knowledge of the topic. Each section progresses and covers more and more detail until there is just about no nook or cranny not exposed.

The course includes video modules that review a combination of slides and code demos. Slides and source code references are included so you can follow along outside the course. Quizzes are also included so you can identify topics you may need to review and sharpen. Finally, the course also includes some articles about selected topic as an additional reference.

You will master the web manifest file so you can tell the browser how to render your brand's desired experience.

HTTPS

Home Screen/Installation Experience

How each browser is and plans to implement PWA support

Service Workers

Service Worker Life Cycle

Service Worker Caching

Push Notifications

Background Synchronization

Basic Performance Best Practices and how to implement the PRPL and RAIL Patterns.

This course does not use any JavaScript frameworks. All examples, primarily a demo site called Fast Furniture, rely on vanilla JavaScript.

The site does use Bootstrap 4 as a CSS library, but know prior Bootstrap knowledge is required.

This does not mean I wont add lectures demonstrating how to use some of the framework PWA CLI tools over time.

Who this course is for:

This course is designed for developers that want to create web applications using the latest web platform technology and reach the largest amount of consumers.

Chris Love

Expert Progressive Web App Engineer

3.7 Instructor Rating
84 Reviews
1,085 Students
1 Course

Chris Love is a front-end developer for people and companies who are lost in the sea of modern web and user experience standards. He has a quarter century of web development experience, and has built a wide variety of web sites and applications in those years. In recent years, he immersed himself in responsive web design, single-page web applications and web performance optimization.

He applies these interests to run a small web consulting company, Love2Dev, that focuses on Progressive Web Applications and modern web technology. Love2Dev offers web development and analysis to help companies engage end users and operate more efficiently.

Chris authored 3 web development books including, High Performance Single Page Web Applications. He is currently authoring a new Progressive Web App book for Packt, due out this Fall.

He is a 10 time Microsoft MVP in ASP.NET and Web Platform. Chris regularly speaks at user groups, code camps and developer conferences.

Through his blog, speaking and books, he’s here to help you shake up your approach to web development while making it all feel like fun. His insights and opinions have been featured in various magazines, popular podcasts web sites. He has helped hundreds of businesses and individuals, ranging from mom and pop shops through major corporate brands, to build modern web experiences.

When he’s not working on front-end development, you can find him spending time with his step-kids, learning karate, training for Spartan races and serving on his church board of directors.