How to make your web apps work offline

The power of JavaScript and browser APIs

Bowei Han
Bowei Han
Nov 1 · 7 min read

The world is becoming a more connected place —the number of people with access to the internet has grown to over 4.5 billion.

What isn’t captured in that figure is the number of people who have slow or faulty connections. Even in the United States, 4.9 million homes can’t get wired access to connection speeds over 3 Megabits per second.

The rest of the world — those who have access to reliable internet — are still susceptible to connection loss…

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