60: Offline First

Summary

The Offline First Heroes, Jan Lehnardt (@janl), John Kleinschmidt (@jkleinsc), Alex Russell (@slightlylate), and Jake Archibald (@jaffathecake) join forces to chat on why web developers should be designing and building with offline capabilities in mind from the beginning. From emerging standards like ServiceWorker to well thought out web frameworks like Hood.ie & UpUp, there are many differnt approaches and reasons why we would develop with an offline first mentality. There are so many gotchas and so many pro tips that have come out of the lessons learned by these offline web evangelists. For better or worse the technical marvels of development in this engineering arena are hard to visualize demo much like the features of good security or performance. Offline is vital and integral to the web just as security and performance are vand it should not be an afterthought in our designs.

Resources

• Offline First - http://offlinefirst.org/

• The Original Offline First Article: http://hood.ie/blog/say-hello-to-offline-first.html

• Hood.ie - http://hood.ie/

• Offline First on IBM Cloudant - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEHGSiC9_ck

• Beyond Offline - https://medium.com/@slsoftworks/beyond-offline-bf5c013ec8e7

• Building Offline mobile apps - http://www.mobilitytechzone.com/topics/4g-wirelessevolution/articles/2015/07/06/406205-how-build-an-offline-ready-mobile-app-why.htm

• A List Apart article - http://alistapart.com/article/offline-first

• UpUp - https://www.talater.com/upup/

• Application Cache - http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/appcache/beginner/

• ServiceWorker Spec - https://github.com/slightlyoff/ServiceWorker

• ServiceWorker Explainer Document - https://github.com/slightlyoff/ServiceWorker/blob/master/explainer.md

• Is ServiceWorker Ready Yet? - https://jakearchibald.github.io/isserviceworkerready/

• ServiceWorker W3C Spec - http://www.w3.org/TR/service-workers/

• Service Worker Explained on MDN - https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Service_Worker_API

• ServiceWorker News - https://twitter.com/service_workers

• Service Worker Platinum Polymer Elements - https://github.com/PolymerElements/platinum-sw

• Offline Cookbook - https://jakearchibald.com/2014/offline-cookbook/

• Safari is the new IE - http://nolanlawson.com/2015/06/30/safari-is-the-new-ie/

• Service Worker Toolbox - https://github.com/GoogleChrome/sw-toolbox

• ServiceWorkerWare - https://github.com/gaia-components/serviceworkerware

• Capability Reporting with ServiceWorker - https://www.igvita.com/2014/12/15/capability-reporting-with-service-worker/

• HospitalRun - http://hospitalrun.io/

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