Building Offline Applications with Angular: Develop Reliable, Performant Web Applications for Desktop and Mobile Platforms

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7. Introduction to IndexedDB

Venkata Keerti Kotaru¹  

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So far you have cached the application skeleton and HTTP GET service calls. A RESTful service provides GET calls for data retrieval. However, HTTP also supports POST to create entities, PUT and PATCH for updates, and DELETE to remove entities. The sample application Web Arcade does not yet support offline access to service calls beyond the GET calls.

This chapter introduces IndexedDB for more advanced offline actions. In this chapter, you will get a basic understanding of