Service Workers

Overview

• What are workers and what do they solve
• Different types of workers
• Network is a progressive enhancement
• Offline Experiences & AppCache
• Service Workers
• DEMO Torbit Dynamic rewrites as a Service Worker 

What are workers and what do they solve?

JS is single threaded asyncronous

Workers allow you to do work outside of the main 'thread'

Types of workers

• Dedicated Worker
• Shared Worker
• Service Worker

Network as progressive enhancement

Offline Experiences & AppCache

Service Worker

Lifecycle

• Register
• Install
• Use

Ways to Register

• with JS
• using a link tag 
• using the Link: header

Install

DEMO time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cR-TP6jOSQM

https://jakearchibald.github.io/isserviceworkerready/

https://app.pluralsight.com/player?course=building-offline-web-apps-service-worker&author=nik-molnar&name=building-offline-web-apps-service-worker-m4&clip=2&mode=live

http://offlinefirst.org