April 2017
Intermediate to advanced
292 pages
6h 27m
English
Content preview from Mobile App Development with Ionic 2, 1st Edition
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Chapter 13. Progressive Web Apps
Since Ionic apps are built with web technologies, you might be wondering if they can be deployed as a traditional web app viewable via a standard browser. The simple answer is yes. That is what we have been doing while we were building and testing our application with $ ionic serve. You can certainly take the contents of the www directory and place them on your web server. The main caveat is that none of the Cordova plugins will function in this environment. The best way to think about publishing your application this way is to think of it as a completely new platform: the browser.
While we don’t have the same capabilities that a native application might have, today’s modern browsers do support several key features, such as geolocation, notifications, and offline storage.
One of the challenges in delivering your application in this manner is the overall file size of our Ionic application. The main.js file that is generated by the CLI (using $ ionic build --prod), starts just under 2 MB.
Reducing Future Build Sizes
The Ionic team is actively working with Angular to reduce the file size of the application further.
Then start factoring in all your visual assets and any other resources you might need very quickly, your app will probably run very slowly as all these items are each fetched across the network. Compound this if you are running over a cellular network or a weak WiFi connection.
However, there is a new idea that is gaining a lot of traction ...
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