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Building Progressive Web Apps with Ionic 4

by Michael Callaghan

Everything changed when Google created the concept of Progressive Web Applications or PWA. A PWA is a pure web application that you can install on devices, that can function with limited network functionality, through its use of intelligent caching.

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What you'll learn

Build a Progressive Web App that will run anywhere. In this course, Building Progressive Web Apps with Ionic 4, you will learn foundational knowledge and gain the ability to create a web application that will run anywhere: the browser, desktop, or mobile clients. First, you will learn what a Progressive Web App (or PWA) is. Next, you will discover how to use the Ionic Framework, Angular, and Firebase to create, deploy, and optimize a basic web application into a full-blown PWA. Finally, you will explore how to configure the application to make it installable and runnable on Androids and iPhones. When you’re finished with this course, you will have the skills and knowledge of Ionic and PWAs needed to create and deploy your own Progressive Web Application anywhere you desire.

Table of contents

Course Overview
2mins
Introduction and Setup
25mins
Creating Your First PWA
38mins
Adding Pages and Functionality
36mins
Hosting Your App
14mins
Improving PWA Performance
25mins
Service Workers and Offline Mode
30mins
Installing the App on a Mobile Device
16mins

About the author

Michael Callaghan

Software developer / Tech Lead with more than twenty years of professional software development experience, primarily in Microsoft and Linux environments, the past decade of which has been spent assembling, mentoring, and leading development teams.

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