pwa

The other day I was watching an interview with Ade Oshineye where he discussed his work on the PWA Directory at Google, a showcase of progressive web apps. And it’s pretty neat!

It lists a whole bunch of PWAs out there and you can filter them by Lighthouse metrics – that’s the auditing tool from Google that scores a web app and gives us developers the ability to improve them.

I hadn't considered the fact that if you're fingerprinting your assets (e.g. style.987987090897.css) to take advantage of browser cache, you'll need to update your Service Worker every time you do that. But I guess you've got a build step anyway, so it can be updated in both places:

... we used a NodeJS module called Stacify to automatically create new version numbers in all the places when a file is changed.