# Best Practices for Building Offline Apps

**URL:** <https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/best-practices-for-building-offline-apps/201507>\
**Category:** Blog\
**Created:** [December 18, 2020, 6:30pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/best-practices-for-building-offline-apps/201507 "2020-12-18T18:30:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![mhartington](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/ionicframework/user_avatar/forum.ionicframework.com/mhartington/32/137757_2.png) [@mhartington](https://forum.ionicframework.com/u/mhartington)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2020, 6:30pm UTC](https://forum.ionicframework.com/t/best-practices-for-building-offline-apps/201507/1 "2020-12-18T18:30:06Z")

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Originally published at: [https://ionicframework.com/blog/best-practices-for-building-offline-apps/](https://ionicframework.com/blog/best-practices-for-building-offline-apps/)  
   
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