PWA Roadshow

The Progressive Web App Roadshow is a series of events that explains the what, why and how of PWAs and allows participants to work through some code labs that provides hands-on experience.

Name

Progressive Web App Roadshow San Francisco 2017

Location

Google Launchpad Space - 301 Howard Street San Francisco, CA - 4th Floor

Date

Sunday, October 22nd - 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM

Role

Participant - I participated this event as part of the Chrome Dev Summit. Registration was super limited so I’m glad I was able to attend.

About

The Progressive Web App Roadshow is a series of events that explains the what, why and how of PWAs and allows participants to work through some code labs that provides hands-on experience.

What are PWAs?

Progressive Web Apps are experiences that combine the best of the web and the best of apps. They load quickly, even on flaky networks, can re-engage with users by sending web push notifications, have an icon on the home screen and load as top-level, full screen experiences.

Topics Covered

Overview

• PWAs
• Twitter Lite
• Lancome
• Lyft
• Google’s Udacity Courses

Integration

• High Conversion Web Forms
• Payment Request API

Reliability

• Service Workers
• Lie-fi
• Workbox

Engaging

• Web Push Notifications Library
• Web Push Notifications Carnival
• Good Notifications
• Timely Matters right now
• Relevant User cares about it
• Precise Exact details
• How Push Works
• Client Side
• Get permissions to send notifications
• Subscribe & get PushSubscription
• Send PushSubscription to server
• Server Side
• Create message on server
• Use Web Push Protocol to send All browsers use Web Push API
• Push Service delivers message
• Message arrives on device
• Browser wakes up service worker
• Handle push event and shows notification
• Application security keys
• public used for subscription
• private used to send messages
• Subscribing and unsubscribing
• Is web push supported?
• Check subscription status
• Subscribe to user userVisibleOnly
• Promoting and permission
• First ask, then prompt
• Weather.com gives options

Security

• HTTPS
• identity
• confidentiality
• integrity
• Man in the middle attacks
• First get HTTPS then extend to HTTP/2
• Certificate Let’s Encrypt
• Referrer Policy

Lighthouse

• Available in Chrome DevTools & as a command line tool.
• Aim for 90 and above on all metrics
• PWA
• Performance
• Accessibility
• Best Practices

Codelabs

• Your First Progressive Web App
• Debugging Service Workers
• Adding Push Notifications
• Frictionless Payments with the Payment Request API

Photos

And I’m pumped!