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Dennis Sheppard, Beginning Progressive Web App Development, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3090-9_5

5. Background Sync for Offline Apps with Service Workers

Dennis Sheppard

(1)Tinley Park, Illinois, USA

Most of the Pirate app is fully offline-capable. There’s one glaring weakness remaining, though, as far as functionality without a connection goes. If you need to make an API call while you don’t have a connection, there’s no mechanism in place to do that. This Pirate app is so great, we’d love for people to be able to leave comments about it. Or even have pirate-based conversations! But what if you happen to like posting Internet comments when you’re out at sea where your Internet connection is choppy? That’s where the ...

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