Maxim Salnikov

@webmaxru

For Production

In 1-2-3

Part 1

Part 2

Part3

Maxim Salnikov

@webmaxru

For Production

In 1-2-3

Part 1

Permanent link:

bit.ly/pwa-for-prod

If you want to code during the session

We need a laptop/desktop with installed (latest stable versions):

  • Git
  • Node
  • NPM

 

Browsers (latest stable versions):

  • Chrome / Firefox / Edge

 

Quick start

npm install serve -g
git clone https://github.com/webmaxru/pwa-for-production
cd pwa-for-production
git checkout part-1-init
npm install
serve

http://localhost:5000/

Recommended to copy code snippets from

https://github.com/webmaxru/pwa-for-production/tree/part-1/dist/pwa-for-production

Optional

Maxim Salnikov

@webmaxru

  • PWA Slack organizer

  • PWA Oslo / PWA Oslo meetups organizer

  • PWA speaker and trainer

Full-Stack Developer, PWAdvocate

Agenda

  • What is a PWA and what advantages does it provide?

  • Browser APIs and specifications we use in PWA and compatibility chart

  • Requirements for our Minimum Viable Product PWA

  • Application shell architecture

  • Service Worker and browser storage foundations

  • Implementing a naive version of the application shell

  • How to test Service Workers

  • Making our app installable

What is PWA at all?

Progressive web apps use modern web APIs along with traditional progressive enhancement strategy to create cross-platform web applications.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Apps/Progressive

These apps work everywhere and provide several features that give them the same user experience advantages as native apps.

UX advantages?

Smart networking + Offline

Proper app experience

Staying notified

Other cool things

}

Service Worker API

Web App Manifest

Predictable caching

Postpone networking while offline

Receiving and showing notifications

Service Worker API

Is there anything REALLY new?

Adding payment methods JIT

Full-scale offline mode

Networking optimizations

install, activate, fetch, backgroundfetchsuccess, backgroundfetchfail, backgroundfetchclick

sync
push, notificationclick
paymentrequest

Cross-platform?

Browser

Desktop

Mobile

Flagged

OS

works everywhere*

* but not everything**

natively

** use progressive enhancement strategy

https://tomayac.github.io/pwa-feature-detector/

Platforms / browsers support

https://web-confluence.appspot.com/#!/catalog?q="pushmanager%20or%20pushsubscription%20or%20serviceworker"​

Support: detailed

Web API Confluence

APIs actively used in PWAs

  • Service Worker API

  • Cache API

  • IndexedDB

  • Fetch

  • Clients API

  • Broadcast Channel API

  • Push API

  • Notifications API

  • Local Storage

  • Session Storage

  • XMLHttpRequest

  • DOM

Not available in service worker:

Even more capable web

https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/list?q=label:Proj-Fugu

  • Writable Files API

  • WebHID API

  • Scheduled Task / Notification API

  • Web Share Target API

  • Wake Lock API

  • Cookie Store API

  • User Idle Detection API

  • ...

Project Fugu

https://twitter.com/webmaxru

#WSH?

Minimum viable PWA

=

+

Application shell

Web App Manifest

Fast, responsive, mobile-first

Served via HTTPS

https://developers.google.com/web/progressive-web-apps/checklist

Let's build an App Shell

My App

  • Define the set of assets required to show the minimum viable UI

Service worker

  • install: put the assets into Cache Storage

  • activate: clear Cache Storage from the previous app version assets

  • fetch: if the asset is in Cache Storage serve it from there. Otherwise — download and serve it (and cache it)

Build time

  • Register service worker the way it does not affect the app loading performance

Website/webapp

Service Worker

Service Worker 101

Logically

Physically

-file(s)

Website

Service-worker

Browser/OS

Event-driven worker

Lifecycle

'install'

Parsed

Installing

Activating

Redundant

'activate'

https://bitsofco.de/the-service-worker-lifecycle/

Waiting

Active

Coding time

Managing cache

self.addEventListener('install', (event) => {
  
    // Put app's html/js/css to cache

})
self.addEventListener('activate', (event) => {
  
    // Wipe previous version of app files from cache

})

In the real world

  • Can't add opaque responses directly

  • Redirected requests should be managed

  • Always creating a new version of cache and deleting the old one is not optimal

  • Control over cache size is required

  • Cache invalidation for runtime caching is complex

  • ...

Intercepting requests

self.addEventListener('fetch', (event) => {

  if (event.request.url.indexOf('/api') != -1) {
    event.respondWith(
      // Network-First Strategy
    )
  } else {
    event.respondWith(
      // Cache-First Strategy
    )
  }
})

In the real world

  • All kinds of fallbacks needed for the strategies

  • There are more complex strategies like Stale-While-Revalidate

  • Good to have routing

  • Good to have the possibility to provide some extra settings for different resource groups

  • ...

Improve

Don't interfere

Don't break

Making an "app" from the website

=

+

Application shell

Web App Manifest

Fast, responsive, mobile-first

Served via HTTPS

chrome://flags#enable-desktop-pwas

For the manual install on Chrome 72 on Mac

  • Not already installed

  • Meets engagement heuristics

  • Proper Web App Manifest

  • Service worker with fetch event

  • Not "prefer related applications"

 

Installation criteria

 

MVP Web App Manifest

https://pwaworkshop.netlify.com

Test on your [mobile] device

Coding time

On iOS

 with PWACompat

}

Resources

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Manifest

Specification

Explainer

https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/app-install-banners/

https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/pwacompat​

Polyfill

https://app-manifest.firebaseapp.com

Generator

In the next session...

  • Implementing complex algorithms

  • Adopting best practices

  • Focusing on YOUR task

  • Following specifications updates

  • Handling edge cases

Tools help with

Building a proper offline experience using Workbox

1) What are the cons and challenges of the manually written service workers

2) Introducing Workbox

3) Automating application shell lifecycle: from building to serving

4) Organizing a proper UX for the app update

5) Runtime caching: strategies

6) What is background sync and how to implement it using Workbox

7) Proper registration of Workbox in your app

Thank you!

Maxim Salnikov

@webmaxru

Questions?

Maxim Salnikov

@webmaxru

https://developers.google.com/web/tools/workbox/

  • Application shell

  • Runtime caching

  • Replaying failed network requests

  • Offline Google Analytics

  • Broadcasting updates

Have our own service worker!

Working modes

  • Workbox CLI

  • Webpack plugin

  • Node module

# Installing the Workbox Node module
$ npm install workbox-build --save-dev

Build script

// We will use injectManifest mode
const {injectManifest} = require('workbox-build')

// Sample configuration with the basic options
var workboxConfig = {...}

// Calling the method and output the result
injectManifest(workboxConfig).then(({count, size}) => {
    console.log(`Generated ${workboxConfig.swDest},
    which will precache ${count} files, ${size} bytes.`)
})

workbox-build-inject.js

Workbox manifest

[
  {
    "url": "index.html",
    "revision": "34c45cdf166d266929f6b532a8e3869e"
  },
  {
    "url": "favicon.ico",
    "revision": "b9aa7c338693424aae99599bec875b5f"
  },
  ...
]

Build script configuration

// Sample configuration with the basic options
var workboxConfig = {
  globDirectory: 'dist/angular-pwa/',
  globPatterns: [
    '**/*.{txt,png,ico,html,js,json,css}'
  ],
  swSrc: 'src/service-worker.js',
  swDest: 'dist/angular-pwa/service-worker.js'
}

workbox-build-inject.js

Source service worker

// Importing Workbox itself from Google CDN
importScripts('https://googleapis.com/workbox-sw.js');

// Precaching and setting up the routing
workbox.precaching.precacheAndRoute([])

src/service-worker.js

1

2

Build flow integration

{
  "scripts": {
    "build-prod": "ng build --prod &&
                   node workbox-build-inject.js"
  }
}

package.json

Better app update UX

App version updates

v1

v2

v1

v1

v2

Deployed

Displayed

v2

A new version of the app is available. Click to refresh.

const updateChannel = new BroadcastChannel('app-shell');

updateChannel.addEventListener('message', event => {
    // Inform about the new version & prompt to reload
});

Option #1: BroadcastChannel

updates.component.ts

workbox.precaching.addPlugins([
    new workbox.broadcastUpdate.Plugin('app-shell')
]);

src/service-worker.js

3

if ('serviceWorker' in navigator) {
    navigator.serviceWorker
        .register('/service-worker.js')
}

Option #2: Service worker lifecycle

index.html

Requirements

  • Feature detection

  • Registration after app fully loaded and UI rendered

  • Hook into service worker lifecycle update event

  • Was the service worker updated?

  • Was the app itself updated?

register-service-worker

import { register } from 'register-service-worker'

platformBrowserDynamic().bootstrapModule(AppModule)
  .then( () => {
      register('/service-worker.js', {




      })
  })

main.ts

$ npm install register-service-worker

https://github.com/yyx990803/register-service-worker

          updated (registration) {
              // Inform & prompt
          }

3

Runtime caching

Strategies and plugins

workbox.routing.registerRoute(
  new RegExp('/app/v2/'),
  workbox.strategies.networkFirst()
);

src/service-worker.js

workbox.routing.registerRoute(
  new RegExp('/images/'),
  workbox.strategies.cacheFirst({
    plugins: [...]
  })
);

Push notifications

Notifications handling

self.addEventListener('push', (event) => {
    self.registration.showNotification(...)
})

src/service-worker.js

self.addEventListener('notificationclick', (event) => {
    // React on notification actions
})
self.addEventListener('notificationclose', (event) => {
    // React on notification closing
})

Summary

  • Framework-agnostic

  • Rich functionality

  • Maximum flexible configuration

  • Full power of our own service worker

Setup -> Configure -> Code

Get what you want

  • 1900+ developers

  • Major browsers/frameworks/libs reps

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