A few people on Twitter have asked about the table of contents for my new book about service workers, Going Offline. Fair enough—why not see the menu before placing your order?
- Introducing Service Workers Does what is says on the tin. It also talks about switching to HTTPS. This chapter is online at A List Apart so you can try before you buy.
- Preparing for Offline This chapter talks about how you register a service worker, and introduces the concept of promises in JavaScript.
- Making Fetch Happen Yes, this chapter title is a Mean Girls reference; fight me. The chapter explains
fetchevents and shows how a service worker can intercept them. - Cache Me if you Can This puntastic chapter is all about caching, and shows you can use caches in your service worker script.
- Service Worker Strategies This is the heart of the book, where you get decide what kind of strategy you want to implement—when to go to the network, when to go a cache, and so on. And as a last resort, you can have a custom offline page.
- Refining Your Service Worker Building on the previous chapter, this one looks at how you can use different strategies for different kinds of files—images, pages, etc.
- Tidying Up This chapter is about good service worker hygiene like deleting old caches. It also introduces some more coding style options.
- The Offline Experience By this chapter, the service worker script is done. But there’s still plenty of room for enhancements on that custom offline page, including the use of offline storage.
- Progressive Web Apps The book finishes with an explanation of progressive web apps, and a step-by-step guide to creating your own web app manifest.
Sound good? Pre-order your copy of the book now and you’ll have it in your hands ten days from now.
# Shared by Frank M. Palinkas on Friday, April 13th, 2018 at 11:51pm