The document discusses various aspects of offline web application development, including techniques for handling connectivity issues, storage options, and the use of service workers. It emphasizes the importance of strategies to detect online/offline status and manages user experience during connectivity disruptions. Additionally, it covers advanced topics such as isomorphic applications, storage mechanisms like IndexedDB, and integration with various libraries and frameworks.

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2. Some statistics
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3. Auto #2: Lada
http://www.belstat.gov.by
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4. Summary
http://www.belstat.gov.by
LadaOther
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5. Summary
http://www.belstat.gov.by
New Cars
Old Cars
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6. Upgrades
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7. Some more statistics
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8. Trends
http://www.belstat.gov.by
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9. Trends
https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2013-02-09%202017-03-
09&q=%2Fm%2F0268gyp,%2Fm%2F0j45p7w,%2Fm%2F012l1vxv,BackboneJS,ExtJ
Uruguay
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10. Garther Hype Cycle
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11. Hype Cycle
Peak of Inflated Expectations
Trough of Disillusionment
Plateau of Productivity
Innovation Trigger
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12. Customer & Offline Second
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13. Insurance Domain
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14. Customer's Clients
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15. Belarus
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16. USA
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17. Reality
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18. Reality
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19. Offline
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20. Avoid application crashes or errors
Allow users to keep working, seamlessly
Avoid multiple changes
Time Limit
Conserns
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21. Step 0: rules
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22. Focus on your goals
Do not refresh libraries
Do not touch lint or style guides
Do not touch working code
Do not refactor anything
Rules
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23. Step 1: detect offline
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24. function updateOnlineStatus(event) {
let condition = navigator.onLine ? 'online' : 'offline';
console.log('Do smth.');
}
window.addEventListener('online', updateOnlineStatus);
window.addEventListener('offline', updateOnlineStatus);
Detect Status
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25. Baidu Map
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26. Gracefully Degrate
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27. Step 2: Requests
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28. $http
new XMLHttpRequest()
$.ajax ($.get, $.post, ...)
fetch
new ActiveXObject
...
Requests
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29. Request Facade
REST
$.ajax
XHR
fetch
Offline...
Facade
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30. Step 3: Detect Slow...
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31. Online or Offline?
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32. Slow or intermittent internet
Slow or intermittent WiFi
Avoid HTTP Timeouts
Detect slow connection
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33. Request Facade + Circuit Breaker
REST
Request
Offline...
Facade
Opened
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34. Closed
Success
Open
Fast Failer
Open
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Half-Open
Success: Open
Try one request
Fail: Close
Circuit Breaker Pattern

35. https://github.com/HubSpot/offline
Offline.js
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36. https://github.com/HubSpot/offline
Offline.js
{
reconnect: {
// How many seconds should we wait before rechecking.
initialDelay: 3,
// How long should we wait between retries.
delay: (1.5 * last delay, capped at 1 hour)
}
}
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37. https://github.com/HubSpot/offline
Offline.js
{
// Should we store and attempt to remake requests
// which fail while the connection is down.
requests: true,
}
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38. https://github.com/HubSpot/offline
Offline.js
// By default, Offline makes an XHR request
// to load your /favicon.ico
// You can change the URL it hits
// (respond with a quick 204 is perfect):
Offline.options = {checks: {xhr: {url: '/connection-test'}}};
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39. Online OnlineOffline
Restart
Browser
Intermittent Offline
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40. Step 4: Reload Page
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41. Prevent Reload
window.onbeforeunload = function(e) {
let dialogText = `You are offline! Don't do it!`;
e.returnValue = dialogText;
return dialogText;
};
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-
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42. Service Workers in 2 slides
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43. Installation
https://developers.google.com/web/fundamentals/instant-and-
offline/offline-cookbook/43

44. Cache Storage
Promisified
Store Request/Response key/value data
Persistent between browser restarts
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45. Work with Service Workers
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46. HTTPS
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47. HTTPS
<script src="http://example.com/jquery.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://assets.example.com/style.css"/>
<img src="http://img.example.com/logo.png"/>;
<p>Read this nice <a href="http://example.com/2014/12/24/">
new post on cats!</a></p>
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48. HTTPS: fix mixed content
<meta http-equiv="Content-Security-Policy"
content="upgrade-insecure-requests">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Security-Policy"
content="block-all-mixed-content">
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49. self.addEventListener('install', function(event) {
event.waitUntil(
caches.open('my-cashe-v1').then(function(cache) {
return cache.addAll([
'/css/whatever-v3.css',
'/css/imgs/sprites-v6.png',
'/css/fonts/whatever-v8.woff',
'/js/all-min-v4.js'
// etc
]);
})
);
});
Installation
49

50. [
"./48065a15ae3a16e845a528a3c0467487.svg",
"./6beb3319398d06b0635871740330ac7b.svg",
"./8450ddeb645c18bff7890bccc95881a7.svg",
"./ba17b770588f23af1184e66179dc222d.svg",
"./2e030a00362fe30a27bc0750b0626797.svg",
"./3585e1891683a708eabb7ed43446cf82.svg",
"./main.e5d23aa4f5b56b06e5ec.bundle.js",
"./1.e5d23aa4f5b56b06e5ec.chunk.js",
"./main.e5d23aa4f5b56b06e5ec.css",
"./1.e5d23aa4f5b56b06e5ec.chunk.js.gz",
"./1.e5d23aa4f5b56b06e5ec.bundle.map.gz",
"./main.e5d23aa4f5b56b06e5ec.css.gz",
"./main.e5d23aa4f5b56b06e5ec.bundle.js.gz"
]
Assets Installation
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51. https://github.com/GoogleChrome/sw-precache
https://github.com/GoogleChrome/sw-toolbox
Service Worker Libraries:
sw-precashe
sw-toolbox
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52. https://github.com/GoogleChrome/sw-toolbox
Service Worker Library: sw-toolbox
toolbox.router.get(/urlPattern/, handler, options);
Matches requests using the GET, POST, PUT, DELETE or
Matches requests using the GET, POST, PUT, DELETE or
Matches requests using the GET, POST, PUT, DELETE or
HEAD HTTP methods respectively.
HEAD HTTP methods respectively.
HEAD HTTP methods respectively.
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53. https://jakearchibald.com/2014/offline-cookbook/
Network Strategies === handlers
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54. https://jakearchibald.com/2014/offline-cookbook/
Network Strategy: Cache Only
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55. https://jakearchibald.com/2014/offline-cookbook/
Network Strategy: Cache Only
importScripts('/sw-toolbox.js');
self.toolbox.options.cache.name = 'test-cache-name';
self.toolbox.router.get('/get-cache-value', self.toolbox.cacheOnly);
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56. Network Strategy: Cache & Network race
https://jakearchibald.com/2014/offline-cookbook/
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57. Network Strategy: Network first
https://jakearchibald.com/2014/offline-cookbook/
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58. self.addEventListener('install', function(event) {
event.waitUntil(
caches.open('mycashe-v1').then(function(cache) {
cache.addAll(
// large and unimportant resources
);
return cache.addAll(
// important resources
);
})
);
});
Custom Logic
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59. https://github.com/NekR/offline-plugin
+ AppCache
+ Manifest
SW Libraries: Webpack Offline Plugin
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60. Step 5: Storages
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61. Storage Size
30-40 Mb~
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62. Limited to 5 MBs
Store only Strings
Persistent between browser restarts
Local Storage
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63. Web SQL
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64. More complex than localStorage
50 MB + (calculate on quota)
Stores Objects, Strings and other
Async
IndexedDB
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65. https://nolanlawson.com/2015/09/29/indexeddb-websql-
localstorage-what-blocks-the-dom/
Speed Tests: insert 1k objects
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66. https://nolanlawson.com/2015/09/29/indexeddb-websql-
localstorage-what-blocks-the-dom/
Speed Tests: insert 1m objects
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67. https://nolanlawson.github.io/html5workertest/
Storages Support in Service Workers
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68. Pull Stategy
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69. RestAPI
Data
UI-Page
Data
Size/Diff
IndDB
Cache
Load
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Data
40 Mb/...
Pull Strategy

70. Step 6: Isomorphism
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71. Client App
Server App
Request Facade
Servises
Rest API
IndDB
Mongo
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Isomorphism
Router
Adapter
Driver

72. Mongo API Everywhere
IndDB
Mongo
Router
Adapter
Driver
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Servises
IndDB
Mongo

73. Step 7: Adapters
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74. 6106
https://github.com/louischatriot/nedb
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75. Basic Querying
Operators ($lt, $lte, $gt, $gte, $in, $nin, $ne, $exists, $regex)
Logical operators $or, $and, $not, $where
Sorting and paginating
Projections
Indexing
File Persistance
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76. 3164
http://lokijs.org/#/
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77. Fast Performance!
Indexing / Secondary Indexing / Unique Indexing
Persistence IndexedDB Adapter
Partial compatibility with MongoDB API
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78. 563
https://github.com/mWater/minimongo
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79. Happy end
but ...?
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80. Push Strategy?
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81. Push Strategy
RestAPI
Data
UI-Page
ClientDB
Delete
Update
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Data
Data

82. https://pouchdb.com/
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83. Omniusable on browsers, nodejs, election, cordova,
react-native and every other javascript-runtime
Replication between client and server-data, compatible
with PouchDB, CouchDB and IBM Cloudant
Mango-Query exactly like you know from mongoDB
and mongoose
https://github.com/pubkey/rxdb
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84. https://www.meteor.com/
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85. https://www.rethinkdb.com/
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86. Horizon is a realtime, open-source
backend for JavaScript apps
https://horizon.io/
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87. What else?
https://loopback.io/
https://github.com/gritzko/swarm87

88. Thank you!
Questions?
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