Resources

If this book were a podcast, then this would be the point at which I would be imploring you to rate me on iTunes (or I’d be telling you about a really good mattress). Instead, I’d like to give you some hyperlinks so that you can explore some of the topics in this brief book in more detail.

Explanations

• Mariko Kosaka wrote and illustrated an explanation of service workers in a post on her site called “Service Worker, what are you?” (http://bkaprt.com/go/10-01/).
• Mariko also wrote and illustrated an explanation of promises called “The Promise of a Burger Party” (http://bkaprt.com/go/10-02/).
• Ire Aderinokun wrote a clear guide to “The Service Worker Lifecycle” (http://bkaprt.com/go/10-03/).
• Yoav Weiss has an explanation of different kinds of caching in “A Tale of Four Caches” (http://bkaprt.com/go/10-04/).

Guides

• Lyza Gardner wrote a step-by-step guide for Smashing Magazine on “Making A Service Worker: A Case Study” (http://bkaprt.com/go/10-05/).
• Jake Archibald has collected a series of service worker strategies into an “offline cookbook” (http://bkaprt.com/go/10-06/).
• Jake also recorded an excellent online video series that you can enjoy for free (http://bkaprt.com/go/10-07/).

Examples

• Mike Riethmuller has an offline page on his site that shows articles you’ve previously visited (http://bkaprt.com/go/10-08/).
• Ethan Marcotte has a similar offline page, but he also shows metadata for each article (http://bkaprt.com/go/10-09/).
• Una Kravets allows you to choose which pages on her site you want to save for reading offline (http://bkaprt.com/go/10-10/).

Progressive web apps

• Alex Russell answers the question “What, Exactly, Makes Something A Progressive Web App?” (http://bkaprt.com/go/10-11/).
• Ada Rose Cannon goes into the details of “The Building Blocks Of Progressive Web Apps” (http://bkaprt.com/go/10-12/).
• Aaron Gustafson quite rightly points out that “Yes, That Web Project Should Be a PWA” (http://bkaprt.com/go/10-13/).
• Jason Grigsby outlines “The Business Case for Progressive Web Apps” (http://bkaprt.com/go/10-14/).

Tools

• Google released a collection of scripts and tools for going offline called Workbox (http://bkaprt.com/go/10-15/).
• To get started with your manifest and service worker, you can paste your website’s URL into PWA Builder (http://bkaprt.com/go/10-16/).

• Lighthouse is a great testing tool for progressive web apps that’s now bundled into Chrome’s Developer Tools under the Audits panel (http://bkaprt.com/go/10-17/).

Documentation

• Over at the website of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) you can dig into the details of the Web App Manifest specification (http://bkaprt.com/go/10-18/).
• The ever-evolving service worker specification is on the W3C’s Github account (http://bkaprt.com/go/10-19/).