From Mobile First to Offline First at That Conference

It's all too easy assume that your web or mobile app will run on a fast and reliable network with great coverage. The reality for your app's users, though, is often a slow and unreliable network with spotty coverage. What happens when the network doesn't work, or when the device is in airplane mode? You get unhappy, frustrated users. Building on the principles of mobile first, offline first is an approach to application design in which a web, mobile, desktop, or Internet of Things (IoT) application is built for offline usage first and is then progressively enhanced to take advantage of network connectivity when available.

An offline-first app is an app that works, without error, when there is no network connection. An offline-first app can provide a better, faster user experience — both offline and online — by storing content and data locally and then applying progressive enhancement to synchronize with the cloud when a reliable network connection is available. An offline-first approach can be taken with Progressive Web Apps, mobile apps (native and hybrid), desktop apps (e.g. Electron), and Internet of Things (IoT) apps.

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1. Bradley Holt, Developer Advocate Wednesday, August 10, 2016 @BradleyHolt From Mobile First to Offline First
8. Web Browsers as Thin Clients
14. Embrace the Chaos of Web Development
15. Progressive Enhancement
16. Progressive Enhancement
17. Ubiquitous Connectivity
18. The Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing 1.  The network is reliable 2.  Latency is zero 3.  Bandwidth is infinite 4.  The network is secure 5.  Topology doesn't change 6.  There is one administrator 7.  Transport cost is zero 8.  The network is homogeneous
19. ✈ Mode
21. Data Caps
22. Urban Canyons
23. Local Dev
24. Lie-Fi
26. Offline First Lack of connectivity is not an error condition.
34. Cloudant Sync
36. One Database Per User userdb-d76846 userdb-905cec userdb-adc95b userdb-c082f2 userdb-730bba userdb-c3d3e5 userdb-a1ec1f userdb-85a327 userdb-9b9aba userdb-85bcfe serdb-da3d25
37. Cloudant Envoy A CouchDB proxy to enable replication of database subsets, more at: github.com/cloudant-labs/envoy
38. Cloudant FoodTracker
41. Cloudant Location Tracker
42. Offline First IoT
43. Consumer Offline First IoT
44. Industrial Offline First IoT
45. Offline Camp We took the Offline First community for a three day retreat in the Catskill Mountains to help foster the growing community around the Offline First movement
61. Get Involved! §  Join the Offline First Slack team: offlinefirst.org/chat/ §  Follow @OfflineCamp on Twitter §  Read the Offline Camp Medium publication: medium.com/offline-camp §  Join us at Offline Camp on the West Coast, in Europe, or at the planned Offline First conference!
63. Image Credits §  Thin Client — OpenVMS by Leonardo Rizzi, on Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0). §  the iOS family pile (2015) by Blake Patterson, on Flickr (CC BY 2.0). §  Screen size visualisation by Orde Saunders, on Flickr (CC BY 2.0). §  fluffy chaos by xdxd_vs_xdxd, on Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0). §  Device landscape by Jeremy Keith, on Flickr (CC BY 2.0). §  Cell phone tower by Gary Lerude, on Flickr (CC BY-ND 2.0). §  Pneumatic Central by Sleestak, on Flickr (CC BY 2.0). §  Cloud Formation Over the Adirondacks by Bradley Holt, on Twitter. §  Money by thethreesisters, on Flickr (CC BY 2.0). §  Los Angeles Downtown by Aydin Palabiyikoglu, on Flickr (CC BY 2.0). §  workstation by Stev Ngo, on Flickr (CC BY 2.0). §  No Signal by Steve Hodgson, on Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0). §  Waterfall by Paulo Valdivieso, on Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0). §  Progressive Web App, le futur du Web au #axawebcenter @hsablonniere #nativeVsWeb #serviceworker #offline1st #sketch http://bit.ly/1TA7IvM by flexbox, on Flickr (CC BY 2.0). §  Service Workers fetch diagram by Mozilla Contributors (CC-BY-SA 2.5). §  Tessel 2 by SparkFun Electronics, on Flickr (CC BY 2.0). §  database by Tim Morgan, on Flickr (CC BY 2.0). §  A mockup of the golden Apple iPhone 5S by Zach Vega, on Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0). §  փఽ࢏ Sensors by Lei Gao, on Flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0). §  Offline Camp location by Bradley Holt, on Twitter.
64. Questions?