Intro & Setup - Progressive Web App Training

Key Takeaways

hi there I'm Sam Dutton a developer advocate at Google part of the team that built this course and we're going to show you how to build great progressive web apps the format is pretty simple we show you something and you build stuff and then you take a break and repeat now this course is focused on you writing code but will also help you understand your users and how to give them a great experience you'll build a simple web app and learn the basics of building offline functionality into your app with serviceworker we'll help you get to grips with the core PWA api's you'll get a chance to brush up your skills with promises fetch and with service workers you'll learn how to cache content to improve performance and work offline and that means file caching with serviceworker and data caching with client-side storage we'll show you how to work with live data and how to make the best of unreliable connections and finally we'll think about be lwas from a business perspective reduce development costs and build a better experience for your users learn how people use websites why and how we buy find out how to maintain a resilient build process and integrate tooling and we'll also look at ways to improve engagement and re engagement with a home screen presence smart installation prompts and push notifications you'll get to grips with web payments and credential management analytics discovery and SEO you're going to learn a lot but you can also help us build a better course so if you find anything that doesn't make sense or code that fails please let us know we'll tell you how to file bugs and changes in the notes below so let's get started [Music]