Building Progressive Web Applications with Vue.js: Reliable, Fast, and Engaging Apps with Vue.js

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4. Caching Strategies

Carlos Rojas¹  

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Medellin, Colombia

 

Nowadays, most web apps run without offline capabilities. They depend almost totally on a server. We can observe this when, from our browser in a web app, we get disconnected and the dinosaur game appears onscreen. This is how Google Chrome tells us we are offline (Figure 4-1).

Figure 4-1

Chrome dino game

This is not the only scenario we want to avoid. There is also a common scenario in which LiFi shows neither our app nor the dinosaur, but leaves users waiting with a white ...