Miles Rausch talks about “Progressive Web Apps Building - Amazing Lucee CFML and ColdBox Tricks” in this episode of the CF Alive Podcast, with host Michaela Light.

Show notes

What a Progressive Web App? (PWA)

Eg google docs

A web app that gives you a native app experience (including offline use)

Content cache

Background working so UI stays as single page

Install icon to your homepage

Why the heck should make your web apps Progressive?

Better user engagement

More responsive UI and better user experience

Why should your trust your users’ network connectivity 100% of the time?

Emerging markets in China, India and Africa

What support is there for Progressive Web Apps?

Who is leading the charge and

Google

Creators of Chrome browser

Creators of many Progressive web apps

Android browser support

Firefox browser

Microsoft

Windows 10 support

IE

Standards groups for Progressive APIs

Lucee

Adobe

Who is left behind

Apple Safari browser

How the the Offline First movement related to this

What if the client device crashes while they are editing offline?

How to easily implement Progressive Web apps using ColdBox and Lucee (and a bit of CommandBox too!)

Demo where he pulls his network connection live

Your move to Lucee CFML

Why are you proud to use CFML?

WWIT for you to make CF more alive this year?

What are you looking forward to at CFObjective?

Progressive Web Apps are more than just a UI fad, like parallax or scroll-triggered animations. PWAs are quickly becoming the best practice for creating reliable, fast and engaging user experiences. Like progressive enhancement, which treated JavaScript as an optional enhancement for a website, progressive web apps treat the network itself as an optional enhancement. By treating the network as untrustworthy, developers are forced to create better web apps that capitalize on modern browser features when they exist and fallback to traditional client-server communication when they don't.

This talk builds the most cutting-edge client technologies upon the solid foundations of ColdBox, giving CFML developers a helpful path into the future. Google has been a strong supporter and proponent of PWAs and the Offline First movement, but their examples and toolkits make too many or too few assumptions about the reader's server technology. This talk will use ColdBox and Lucee (through CommandBox) as the server language, allowing CFML developers to wrap their heads about this new movement and hopefully incorporate its philosophy and techniques into their existing and upcoming projects.

Mentioned in this episode

Progressive Web Apps

Offline First

Forbes case study of a Progressive App

Twitter light - mobile progressive web app

Google Progressive case studies site

The “Progressive” in Progressive Web Apps (Chrome Dev Summit 2016)  

Patrick Kettner, Product Manager for Microsoft Edge, talks about the "progressive" in PWAs, service workers, AppCache, and more!

Service worker

Index.db

Slides.com

CommandBox open source command line CFML and package manager

Similar in idea npm and Yarn for Node.js

Progressive Web App Dev Summit

Google I/O event

annual developer festival

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Bio

Miles Rausch

Miles Rausch is a web developer from Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

He is a writer for people, and a writer for computers. He believes that he is destined to spend his time at a keyboard.

During his work time, he develops for both server (in CFML using the Lucee engine) and client (where he tries to be unobtrusive, semantic and responsibly future-facing). At the same time, Miles have been having a flirty affair with Node.js and React.

In his personal time, he writes short stories and novels. Fiction is as strong a passion for Miles as programming, and he has published in some online publications ...