This two-part series is a gentle introduction to offline web development. Getting a web application to do something while offline is surprisingly tricky, requiring a lot of things to be in place and functioning correctly. We’re going to cover all …
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.…
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, …
A straightforward tutorial by Una Kravets on caching assets and individually requested articles with Service Workers for offline reading.
I’m curious what the best practice will become. It’s possible that asking users to click something is it. Also possible: passively …
Mariko Kosaka:
…I finally figured out, it’s an alien you can invite to live on user’s browser.
I’ve been playing around with ServiceWorker a lot recently, so when Chris asked me to write an article about it I couldn’t have been more thrilled. ServiceWorker is the most impactful modern web technology since Ajax. It’s an API that …
