Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) FTW — Pt. 2
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Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) FTW — Pt. 2IntroductionIn part 1 of this series we looked at what Progressive Web Apps are and discussed how they can improve user experiences in mobile web. These articles are based on the talk I gave at the Reversim Summit. If you prefer to watch the video you can see it here:▻https://medium.com/media/2c31b3cbe49e18762f4820b486c62234/hrefLet’s continue where we left off last time and dive into Web Workers. Web Workers are the core technologies that enable PWAs.Web WorkersIf you’ve worked a bit with #javascript before you may have noticed that it is single threaded. This is evident if you do any expensive computations on the client side. In these cases the page becomes unresponsive until the script running the computations is finished. A web worker comes to solve (...)