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Offline First!

by Jeffrey ZeldmanNovember 05, 2013August 12, 2019

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We can’t keep building apps with the desktop mindset of permanent, fast connectivity, where a temporary disconnection or slow service is regarded as a problem and communicated as an error. With Hoodie, we’ve created an architecture that allows you to build offline apps with relative ease.

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