Building Offline Applications with Angular

Get a complete overview of offline installable applications. Businesses need reliable applications that enable users to access data and their applications in spite of a bad network connection.  

Traditional websites work only when connected to the network. With a large number of users depending on mobile phones and tablets for work, social interactions, and media consumption, it’s important that the web applications can work on a weak network connection and even offline. 

This step-by-step guide shows you how to build an Angular application that considers offline access and uses its ready-made features and configurations. Build Offline Applications with Angular helps bridge the gap between native apps and web applications.

What You Will Learn

• Get started with an installable Angular application
• Understand the importance of performant, reliable, and offline access of a web application
• Discover solutions for building Angular applications for speedy response in low bandwidth scenarios
• Use IndexedDB as an offline data store within a browser

Who Is This Book For

Ideal for beginner-to-intermediate-level readers with basic understanding of JavaScript and Angular.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Building Modern Web Applications

Chapter 2: Getting Started

Chapter 3: Installing an Angular Application

Chapter 4: Service Workers

Chapter 5: Cache Data with Service Workers

Chapter 6: Upgrading Applications

Chapter 7: Introduction to Indexed DB

Chapter 8: Creating the Entities Use Case

Chapter 9: Creating Data Offline

Chapter 10: Dexie.js for lndexedDB

About the Author

V Keerti Kotaru has been in software development for almost two decades. He helped design and develop scalable, performant, modern software solutions for multiple clients. He holds a master’s degree in software systems from the University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis and St. Paul, USA.

He is an author of books on Angular, contributes to the developer community by blogging, writing articles and speaking at technology, events. He wrote for Dotnet Curry (DNC Magazine). He presented technology sessions at AngularJS Hyderabad, AngularJS Chicago and Google Developer Groups at Hyderabad including the annual event Dev Fest. He is a three time Microsoft MVP.