783: How We Built a Netflix Style “Save for Offline” Feature Into Syntax
Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats
Wes Bos
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🗓️ 17 June 2024
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Syntax on this Monday hasty treat. |
| 0:04.6 | We're going to be once again talking about the thing that we all hold so dearly. |
| 0:09.8 | In fact, we hold it for a long time. |
| 0:12.0 | Sometimes we hold it for days and days. |
| 0:13.9 | I'm talking about caching. |
| 0:15.1 | We're going to be talking about caching, |
| 0:16.8 | but not necessarily in the ways that we've talked about it before. |
| 0:20.0 | We're going to be talking about the cash API, |
| 0:22.1 | which many people think of as being part of service |
| 0:24.2 | workers. |
| 0:25.2 | But we're going to be talking about how we used it to build a Netflix style save for offline |
| 0:29.8 | for the application, for podcast episodes on our syntax site. |
| 0:35.0 | My name is Scott Tolinsky. |
| 0:36.0 | I'm a developer from Denver and with me as always is West Boss. |
| 0:39.6 | Hey, I am really excited about this because I did not realize that this was the |
| 0:45.7 | APA that you needed to to store stuff locally in the browser. I always thought it was |
| 0:51.6 | like file system APIs or or IndexedB, and turns out that there is a really nice |
| 0:56.3 | cash API that's not just service worker. |
| 0:59.1 | I've used it plenty of times in service workers, but not for storing data in the browser. |
| 1:03.8 | And I've always wondered myself, like I would love to be able to, for my courses, like |
| 1:08.9 | save them in the browser so people can watch them, but still get the whole streaming experience, you know. the level of tutorials was I guess I'm going to have to make an electron app right making a |
| 1:24.8 | desktop app and then therefore they could download the course and then have it be easily |
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