Service Worker Development Best Practices

Avoid common pitfalls and roadblocks to improve your service worker development experience and application quality.

source https://love2dev.com/serviceworker/development-best-practices

Service Worker Development Best Practices

Avoid common pitfalls and roadblocks to improve your service worker development experience and application quality.

source https://love2dev.com/serviceworker/development-best-practices/

Why Progressive Web Applications (PWA) Make JavaScript Frameworks Obsolete

PWAs depend on service workers, a powerful background script. They can perform much of the work servers & JavaScript frameworks do, making frameworks obsolete.

source https://love2dev.com/pwa/obsolete-javascript-frameworks

Chrome to Block HTTPS/HTTP Mixed Content by February 2020

Chrome will start blocking mixed HTTPS/HTTP content in Chrome 79. This will affect sites loaded over HTTPS, but loading non-secure, HTTP, resources.

source https://love2dev.com/blog/chrome-mixed-content

Why jQuery is Obsolete and Time to Stop Using It

jQuery revolutionized how the web works. Today, web standards have caught up and surpassed jQuery features, its time to use native APIs instead.

source https://love2dev.com/blog/jquery-obsolete

BingBot Migrates to Using Chromium Based Microsoft Edge

Microsoft's Bing search bot now uses the latest Microsoft Edge browser to render pages. This will have impact in the SEO community.

source https://love2dev.com/seo/bingbot-edge

The PubCon Schedule Progressive Web App

The PubCon Schedule Progressive Web App puts the schedule in your palm, even when the conference Wi-Fi is failing you.

source https://love2dev.com/pwa/pubcon

Are There Disadvantages to PWAs?

Many detractors say Progressive Web Apps have disadvantages. I disagree and explain why most arguments are just fake news.

source https://love2dev.com/pwa/progressive-web-app-disadvantages

How Do Progressive Web App Splash Screens Work?

Progressive Web Applications use the web manifest icons array to pull images for splash screens. iOS still leans on Apple's touch icon syntax. But there's more

source https://love2dev.com/pwa/splash-screen

Use the Bing URL Submission API in Your Node Applications

The Bing URL submission API allows you to submit up to 10,000 URLs a day. The Node Ping_Bing module makes it easy to integrate in your Node Applications

source https://love2dev.com/seo/ping_bing

Bing Automates Importing Confirmed Sites from Google

Bing has added the ability to import confirmed sites from Google Search Console to the Bing Webmaster Tools. How it works & benefits your site.

source https://love2dev.com/seo/bing-import-sites-from-google

Wix SEO? Can the Site Builder Help You Rank Better?

Wix is trying to position their site builder as offering SEO capabilities. Why is the platform not only bad at SEO, but what they are promoting simple or misleading?

source https://love2dev.com/seo/wix

The ping_bing Module Makes the Bing URL Submission API Easy

If you need to submit a URL to Bing and are using Nodejs in your web platform the ping_bing module makes it easy to integrate in your workflow.

source https://love2dev.com/seo/ping_bing_nodejs

Google AdSense to deprecate mobile apps for a PWA

Google AdSense is deprecating their mobile admin applications in favor of a progressive web app. Why this matters to businesses deciding between native & PWAs

source https://love2dev.com/pwa/adsense

What You Need to Know about PWA Add to Homescreen

The PWA Add to Homescreen process is an important step in building the relationship with the customer. For now, it is a fragmented landscape. What you need to know to ensure your PWA is installed on your customer's device.

source https://love2dev.com/pwa/add-to-homescreen

Restaurant Logo Design - Use Your Logo to Make an Iconic Brand

Your logo represents your restaurant in store, online and anywhere your customers are. It should convey your brand's quality and experience. So how can you use your logo?

source https://love2dev.com/restaurant/logo

How GrubHub Shadow Sites Affect Restaurant Sales

GrubHub registered over 30k domains and built thin websites to represent restaurants in search engines. How does the practice work and what can you do about it

source https://love2dev.com/restaurant/grubhub-shadow-sites

Why Progressive Web Apps on iOS Make Sense

Progressive Web Apps are great solutions for business success despite the platform not supporting all modern web platform features. Learn why PWAs are better than native apps for your business

source https://love2dev.com/pwa/ios

Using the Geolocation API in your Progressive Web App

The geolocation API enables you to add precision location features to your progressive web application. You can get a single location or monitor changes for a more advanced experience

source https://love2dev.com/blog/html-geolocation

Why WordPress Sites Should Use a Content Delivery Network

Many WordPress websites do not properly use a content delivery network (CDN) to serve their content. This leaves them vunerable to failed connections and page speed issues

source https://love2dev.com/blog/wordpress-cdn

Enabling Service Workers to Support preload Browser Requests

Browser hints can improve page speed. Service worker boot time can negate improvement for preload hints. Learn to add preload support to your service worker

source https://love2dev.com/pwa/service-worker-preload

The PWA Add to Homescreen Library

Managing the differences between each browser and platform's progressive web app installation process is daunting. The Add to Homescreen Library makes this easy

source https://love2dev.com/pwa/add-to-homescreen-library

The PWA Starter

A free, online tool to generate the core files needed to make any website a progressive web application.

source https://love2dev.com/pwa/pwa-starter

How to Use the Datalist Element for Guided Input

The datalist element pairs with one or more input fields to provide an auto-suggest list of values the user can select rather than type. Learn how to use the datalist for better mobile first UX.

source https://love2dev.com/blog/datalist

Microsoft Edge Chromium Review and Feature Support

Microsoft Edge now uses the Chromium rendering engine. What features does it support? What separates Edge from Chrome and other browsers and should you use Edge?

source https://love2dev.com/blog/microsoft-edge

How to Use the WebShare API to Trigger the Native Share Dialog

The Webshare API brings native sharing to social networks, SMS, email and other targets to the web. Now you can invoke the native share dialog from a web page.

source https://love2dev.com/blog/webshare-api

MLB Ballpark App Frustrates Fans - Why it Should be a PWA

Major League Baseball's opening day experiences featured frustrated fans due to MLB's mobile apps failing. A Progressive Web App would provide a better experience.

source https://love2dev.com/pwa/mlb-ballpack-tickets

MLB Ballpark App Frustrates Fans - Why it Should be a PWA

Major League Baseball's opening day experiences featured frustrated fans due to MLB's mobile apps failing. A Progressive Web App would provide a better experience.

source https://love2dev.com/pwa/mlb-ballpark-tickets

What Are Progressive Web Application Benefits?

Progressive Web Apps are a new breed of website. A properly designed PWA offers benefits through improved user experience, reduced costs, platform integration & more

source https://love2dev.com/pwa/benefits

What Are Progressive Web Application Push Notifications?

Push notifications are a low cost, high engagement messaging channel you can use to increase your business' revenue and conversions. How do they work & why you need them

source https://love2dev.com/pwa/push-notifications

Should You Use the WWW Subdomain? History & Advice

Why does the www subdomain exist? Should you use it as your website's address? A little history and some suggestions on how to leverage the www domain alias.

source https://love2dev.com/blog/www-subdomain

Progressive Web Apps VS Native Apps - Why PWAs Win

Progressive web applications raise the bar for the web, putting the platform on an equal footing with native apps, but without losing the ability to be found.

source https://love2dev.com/pwa/progressive-web-app-vs-native

Spotify, The Apple App Store and Why Progressive Web Apps Rule

Spotify has cried fowl on Apple's AppStore practices. Apple has jabbed back. What is Spotify complaining about and why is this just another case for shipping progressive web apps

source https://love2dev.com/pwa/spotify-apple-appstore

3 Progressive Web Application Examples

With progressive web app (PWA) demand on the rise, many stakeholders are determining if they are a safe bet. There are many well known brands already benefiting, these are some examples.

source https://love2dev.com/pwa/progressive-web-application-examples

What is the !! (not not) operator in JavaScript?

Wondering what !! means in JavaScript? It is a convenient way to convert a value to a boolean using a double JavaScript not operator.

source https://love2dev.com/blog/javascript-not-operator

Breaking Down the MarioNet Attack - Is it Even Viable?

An academic research group published a paper describing a potential attack scaled by leveraging service workers to execute on a client computer without user knowledge. Is it legitimate, or just a fanciful scenario?

source https://love2dev.com/pwa/marionet-attack

Bing's New Passive Spidering Policy Is a Good Thing for SEO

Bing recently announced they will migrate from actively spidering URLs to only checking URLs when notified by the site owner. The move should reduce the amount of resources required to index the web and eliminate weak content from search results.

source https://love2dev.com/seo/bing-url-submission

Does Old or Fresh Content Matter More to Google?

Why does old, outdated content continue to outrank new, more accurate content? John Mueller and boiling an egg can give us insight into how Google ranks new vs old content.

source https://love2dev.com/seo/fresh-vs-stale-content

What Developers Can Learn from Google and SEO to Build Better Apps

Search Engine Optimization is about creating the best answer and experience for the searchers question. The lessons Google shares for SEO can be applied to software development.

source https://love2dev.com/seo/seo-developer

What Developers Can Learn from Google and SEO to Build Better Apps

Search Engine Optimization is about creating the best answer and experience for the searchers question. The lessons Google shares for SEO can be applied to software development.

source https://love2dev.com/seo/seo-developer

Managing Dynamic Content SEO for Organic Search Results

Ranking pages that rely on dynamic data, like hotel booking rates, can be complicated. How can you earn organic SERPS when data is generated real-time?

source https://love2dev.com/seo/dynamic-content-seo

What Diana Ross Barbie's Can Teach About Keyword Research

Determining the best keywords can be tricky. This is a story of how Diana Ross Barbie's teach a lesson in keyword research & targeting. You need to find a balance between high volume and high purchase intent keywords.

source https://love2dev.com/seo/keyword-research

What is an App Shell and Do You Need One?

An App Shell can improve your page's percieved speed. It loads critical assets, then progressively renders the rest of the page. But is it the right solution for your website?

source https://love2dev.com/blog/app-shell

Make a New Year's Resolution and Update Your Website

Each new year it is a common time to set resolutions to improve yourself. You can also take this time to improve your business by improving your website.

source https://love2dev.com/blog/new-year-new-website

3 Reasons Why You Should Use A Content Delivery network [CDN]

One of the fundamentals of web performance optimization is the use of a Content Delivery Network (CDN). CDN's distribute your application's assets around the gl

source https://love2dev.com/blog/why-use-cdn