Jason talks through the service worker strategy for his company website.
An interesting idea from Tantek for an offline page that links off to an archived copy of the URL you’re trying to reach—useful for when you’re site goes down (though not for when the user’s internet connection is down).
Damn, I wish I had thought of giving this answer to the prompt, “What is one thing people can do to make their website better?”
If you do nothing else, this will be a huge boost to your site in 2022.
Chris’s piece is a self-contained tutorial!
This in an intriguing promise (there’s no code yet):
A PWA typically requires writing a service worker, an app manifest and a ton of custom code. Progressier flattens the learning curve. Just add it to your html template — you’re done.
I worry that this one line of code will pull in many, many, many, many lines of JavaScript.
Chris Ferdinandi blogs every day about the power of vanilla JavaScript. For over a week now, his daily posts have been about service workers. The cumulative result is this excellent collection of resources.
So, why would you want to use a service worker? Here are some cool things you can do with it.
Chris lists some of the ways a service worker can enhance user experience.
The browser equivalent of a Roman legion showing up in a space opera.
The h-entry microformat and the Cache API are a perfect pairing for offline pages.
A little performance boost for your network-first service worker strategy.
There’s a bug in the cache-trimming code I wrote.
A service worker strategy for dealing with lie-fi.