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Direct link to the article The Difference Between Web Sockets, Web Workers, and Service Workers
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The Difference Between Web Sockets, Web Workers, and Service Workers

Web Sockets, Web Workers, Service Workers… these are terms you may have read or overheard. Maybe not all of them, but likely at least one of them. And even if you have a good handle on front-end development, there’s a …

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Aisha Bukar on Nov 3, 2022
Direct link to the article Making a Site Work Offline Using the VitePWA Plugin
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Making a Site Work Offline Using the VitePWA Plugin

The VitePWA plugin from Anthony Fu is a fantastic tool for your Vite-powered sites. It helps you add a service worker that handles:

  • offline support
  • caching assets and content
  • prompting the user when new content is available
  • …and other goodies!
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Adam Rackis on Jan 18, 2022
Direct link to the article Add a Service Worker to Your Site
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Add a Service Worker to Your Site

One of the best things you can do for your website in 2022 is add a service worker, if you don’t have one in place already. Service workers give your website super powers. Today, I want to show you some …

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Chris Ferdinandi on Dec 28, 2021
Direct link to the article Creating Scheduled Push Notifications
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Creating Scheduled Push Notifications

Scheduled is the key word there — that’s a fairly new thing! When a push notification is scheduled (i.e. “Take your pill” or “You’ve got a flight in 3 hours”) that means it can be shown to the user even …

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Nico Martin on Apr 8, 2020 (Updated on Apr 9, 2020)
Direct link to the article Client-Side Image Editing on Mobile
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Client-Side Image Editing on Mobile

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Michael Scharnagl:

Ever wanted to easily convert an image to a grayscale image on your phone? I do sometimes, and that’s why I build a demo using the Web Share Target API to achieve exactly that.

For this I

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Shared by Chris Coyier on Mar 20, 2020
Direct link to the article Going Buildless
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Going Buildless

I’m in a long distance relationship. That means I’m on a plane to England every few weeks, and every time I’m on that plane, I think about how nice it would be to read some Reddit posts. What I could …

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Pascal Schilp on Aug 27, 2019
Direct link to the article Inline SVG… Cached
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Inline SVG… Cached

I wrote that using inline <svg icons make for the best icon system. I still think that’s true. It’s the easiest possible way to drop an icon onto a page. No network request, perfectly styleable.

But inlining code has …

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Chris Coyier on Apr 12, 2019 (Updated on Oct 28, 2020)
Direct link to the article Service Worker Cookbook
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Service Worker Cookbook

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I stumbled upon this site the other day from Mozilla that’s a collection of recipes to get started with a Service Worker — from caching strategies and notifications to providing an offline fallback to your users, this little cookbook has …

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Shared by Robin Rendle on May 25, 2018
Direct link to the article Going Offline
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Going Offline

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Jeremy Keith has written a new book all about service workers and offline functionality that releases at the end of the month. The first chapter is posted on A List Apart. Now that the latest versions of iOS and …

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Shared by Robin Rendle on Apr 11, 2018
Direct link to the article Offline *Only* Viewing
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Offline *Only* Viewing

It made the rounds a while back that Chris Bolin built a page of his personal website that could only be viewed while you are offline. Now he has a whole magazine around this same concept called The Disconnect!

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Chris Coyier on Feb 8, 2018
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Making your web app work offline, Part 2: The Implementation

This two-part series is a gentle, high-level introduction to offline web development. In Part 1 we got a basic service worker running, which caches our application resources. Now let’s extend it to support offline.…

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Adam Rackis on Dec 7, 2017
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