Abstract

Being offline sucks. It’s one of the biggest pains in our ever growing hyper-connected world.The ideal scenario would be that web applications took care of this downside, but still the majority of application programmers doesn’t develop for the offline state.Thanks to the evolution of HTML5 offline features and new JavaScript frameworks like hood.ie we can now build offline-first applications without too much hassle.In this talk, I will show you how to build offline-first applications, illustrating some of the benefits for the user and your business. I will explain how creating offline-capable applications can be fun and why we need to rethink established solutions in order to pave the way for a more user-friendly future.