Sometimes the seesaw of web tech is fascinating. Service workers have arrived, and beyond offline networking (read Jeremy’s book) which is possibly their best feature, they can enable push notifications via the Push API.
I totally get …
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 …
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
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.…
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 …
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 …
There was a lot of great talks from Google’s I/O event this year, and Jake Archibald’s talk on building offline-first is certainly one of them. The DevTools in 2016 talk is great too.
Or, decide for yourself! There is a …
Remy Sharp attended Google’s first Progressive Web Apps event:
…What’s stood out for me was how a relatively small amount of JavaScript and some well considered code can truly create an offline first experience that doesn’t just rival it’s native
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 …
