Articles Tagged service workers

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 do is find a Reddit app that lets me cache posts for offline (I’m sure there is one out there), or I could take the opportunity to write something myself and have fun using the latest and greatest technologies and … Read article “Going Buildless”

I wrote that using inline <svg></svg> icons makes 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 some drawbacks, one of which is that it doesn’t take advantage of caching. You’re making the browser read and process the same code over and over as you browse around. Not that big of a deal. There are much bigger … Read article “Inline SVG… Cached”

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!

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.… Read article “Making your web app work offline, Part 2: The Implementation”

In the first part of this series we set up the front end with a Service Worker, a `manifest.json` file, and initialized Firebase. Now we need to create our database and watcher functions.… Read article “Implementing Push Notifications: The Back End”