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An Introduction to Service Workers - Refresh 2016

Phil Nash
September 09, 2016

An Introduction to Service Workers - Refresh 2016

Service Workers are the biggest thing to hit the browser since XMLHttpRequest. We'll take a look at what the Service Worker can do for your app and more importantly, your users. We'll see the surprisingly small amount of code you need to get started with a Service Worker and finally we'll take a look at Progressive Web Apps and how the Service Worker will take part in a revolution for web applications.

Links:

Offline apps course on Udacity: https://www.udacity.com/course/offline-web-applications--ud899

The demo SMS app: https://github.com/philnash/sms-messages-app

HTML5Rocks intro to service worker: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/service-worker/introduction/
Service Worker spec: https://slightlyoff.github.io/ServiceWorker/spec/service_worker/
Is Service Worker Ready Yet? https://jakearchibald.github.io/isserviceworkerready/
And resources: https://jakearchibald.github.io/isserviceworkerready/resources.html
Service Worker Cookbook: http://www.serviceworke.rs/
Addy Osmani - Offline Storage for Progressive Web Apps - https://bit.ly/cache-vs-db

Twilio Blog: Web powered SMS inbox with push notifications: https://www.twilio.com/blog/2016/02/web-powered-sms-inbox-with-service-worker-push-notifications.html
Background sync: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/12/background-sync?hl=en

Phil Nash

September 09, 2016
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