Lewis Fairweather
1 min readNov 26, 2019

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Yes I am,

tripapt.com

Tripapt is a startup that I’ve been working on for the past year (sole developer and Co-Founder), the most challenging part (specific to angular) was the Universal side of things, the PWA side was a breeze in comparison. I hadn’t used Angular before so the caveats and SSR specific issues were time consuming, especially since I had about 1000 other tasks at the same time. But I persevered with SSR as it was already a PWA at that stage, it was a PWA almost from the start, mainly because I wanted the ‘add to home screen’ functionality and the immersive feel (no url bar etc.), it loads much faster due to caching strategies but wasnt discoverable at that stage, hence the SSR move. With a PWA, the ngsw config file is where you’ll do most of the tweaking and fiddling, but nothing that would interfere with SSR, you just have to make sure not to use the global Navigator (needed to access the service worker) unless you’re client side.

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Lewis Fairweather
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