Name: Going Offline
Author: Jeremy Keith
ISBN: 978-1-952616-23-5

foreword by Aaron Gustafson

Design an ideal offline experience with Service Workers.

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Boldly take your website where it’s never gone before: offline. Jeremy Keith introduces you to service workers (and the code behind them) to show you the latest strategies in offline pages. Learn the ins and outs of fetching and caching, enhance your website’s performance, and create an ideal offline experience for every user, no matter their connection.

Topics Covered

Introducing Service Workers
Preparing for Offline
Making Fetch Happen
Cache Me If You Can
Service Worker Strategies
Refining Your Service Worker
Tidying Up
The Offline User Experience
Progressive Web Apps

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Jeremy Keith explains service workers with kindness, clarity, and humor in his new book, a must-read for any web developer who wants to learn this exciting new API and enable offline experiences for their applications.

Sarah Drasner

VP of developer experience at Netlify and staff writer at CSS-Tricks

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We have reached a new era in which the web’s powers are close to matching that of native applications. Being offline is no longer an obstacle. Jeremy’s enlightening book explores this new era with tips, explanations, and wonderful insights into the world of Progressive Web Apps.

Ire Aderinokun

COO and VP of engineering at BuyCoins

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With Jeremy Keith’s characteristic wit and charm, Going Offline shows designers how to create truly resilient websites. At long last, we can make our work accessible on even the spottiest, most unreliable networks—which means, in turn, our sites can be visited by as many people as possible.

Ethan Marcotte

Author of Responsive Web Design

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About the Author

Jeremy Keith lives in Brighton, England where he makes websites with the splendid design agency Clearleft. You may know him from such books as DOM Scripting, Bulletproof Ajax, and Resilient Web Design. Hailing from Erin's green shores, Jeremy maintains his link to Irish traditional music running the community site The Session. He also indulges a darker side of his bouzouki-playing in the band Salter Cane. Jeremy spends most of his time goofing off on the internet, documenting his time-wasting on adactio.com, where he has been writing for over fifteen years.