Manifest generator
A handy tool for helping you generate a JSON manifest file for your site. You’ll need one of those if you want Android devices to provide an “add to home screen” prompt.
Link archive: November 18th, 2015
Instant Loading Web Apps With An Application Shell Architecture | Web Updates - Google Developers
Outlining the architectural thinking required to create what the Google devrel folks are calling progressive apps.
Browsers without service worker support should always be served a fall-back experience. In our demo, we fall back to basic static server-side rendering…
Yay!
…but this is only one of many options.
Hmmm. In my opinion, sending usable HTML on first request isn’t an implementation detail—it’s crucial. But on the whole, this approach is very sensible indeed.
Google+ | Google Web Showcase - Google Developers
Paul gives the lowdown on the Google+ responsive relaunch. They set themselves this performance budget:
- 60K of HTML,
- 60K of CSS,
- 60K of JavaScript,
- 60 frames per second animations, and
- 0.6 seconds latency.
And this bit is crucial:
One of our major rules was that all our pages needed to be both server-side and client-side rendered. With server-side rendering we make sure that the user can begin reading as soon as the HTML is loaded, and no JavaScript needs to run in order to update the contents of the page.