Tag Archives: service workers
PWA Minimus: A minimal PWA checklist
May 29, 2018, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
Now that Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) are supported on all major browsers, and are becoming first-class installable citizens on mobile and desktop platforms alike, and with the launch of Google’s PWA .app domain, we thought it would be useful to outline a PWA checklist to meet the minimum requirements of a PWA. The result is... Read More
Safari service workers and other PWA good news stories
November 1, 2017, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
It’s been a while since we’ve checked in on the state of Progressive Web Apps, there’s much to talk about. Here’s a whirlwind update of the major PWA news over the past few months. 1. Service workers support in Safari Probably the biggest news in PWA land is that during August the status of Service... Read More
Caching with service workers, the easy way
September 22, 2016, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
Caching is one (just one) of the things that service workers do really well. A good caching policy enables your web app to do some pretty cool things, like serving almost instantaneous responses, smoothing over patchy network connections, and even providing offline functionality. With the right caching you can banish 404 response pages to the... Read More
Service worker toolkits and libraries
March 9, 2016, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
Overwhelmed by service workers? Here’s a collection of tools and libraries that will help tame this powerful beast!... Read More
