Service Workers: Using Hard-Won Experience and Looking Ahead
summary
Covers the Service Worker API as the programmable network proxy behind Progressive Web Apps, focusing on offline support, request optimization, push notifications and other use cases. Presents best practices with code for the full worker lifecycle (registration through forced removal), discusses HTTP-request edge cases when handled from a service worker, reviews current browser support for spec parts, recommends tools to automate network tasks, and outlines planned additions to the Service Worker API.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:03What are Service Workers
- 6:48Service Worker as proxy
- 14:17Application Shell
- 20:42Service Worker limits
- 30:27Updating cache
- 39:43Service Worker tools
- 46:48Cache issues
- 51:48New Service Worker features
- 57:33Background sync future
- 1:00:52Summary
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