Every website and web app should have a service worker | Go Make Things
Needless to say, I agree with this sentiment.
I’ve worked with a lot of browser technology over the years. Service workers are pretty mind-blowing.
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minimum interesting service worker
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).
Service Design Breakfast Club meet-up for UK service designers
Service designers of Brighton!
We meet for 1–1½ hours from 8.30am on the first Thursday of every month at Clearleft’s studio in Brighton.
as days pass by — Farmbound, or how I built an app in 2022
Stuart writes up the process up making a mobile game as a web app—not a native app. The Wordle effect reverberates.
It’s a web app. Works for everyone. And I thought it would be useful to explain why it is, why I think that’s the way to do things, and some of the interesting parts of building an app for everyone to play which is delivered over the web rather than via app stores and downloads.
It’s Time to Build a Progressive Web App. Here’s How – The New Stack
Much as I appreciate the optimism of this evaluation, I don’t hold out much hope that people’s expectations are going to change any time soon:
Indeed, when given a choice, users will opt for the [native] app version of a platform because it’s been considered the gold standard for reliability. With progressive web apps (PWAs), that assumption is about to change.
Nonetheless, this is a level-headed look at what a progressive web app is, mercifully free of hand-waving:
- App is served through HTTPS.
- App has a web app manifest with at least one icon. (We’ll talk more about the manifest shortly.)
- App has a registered service worker with a fetch event handler. (More on this later too.)
Streets Series’ Articles - DEV Community 👩💻👨💻
This is a really excellent four-part series on web performance that really dives into the technical details and asks all the right questions:
How to make MPAs that are as fast as SPAs | Go Make Things
The headline is a little misleading because if you follow this advice, your multi-page apps will be much much faster than single page apps, especially when you include that initial page load of a single page app.
Here’s a quick high-level summary of what I do…
That’s an excellent recipe for success right there!
Add a Service Worker to Your Site | CSS-Tricks - CSS-Tricks
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!
Serve folder for web development
This is a very nifty use of a service worker—choose a local folder that you want to navigate using HTTP rather than the file system.
Getting Started with PWAs [Workshop]
The slides from Aaron’s workshop at today’s PWA Summit. I really like the idea of checking navigator.connection.downlink and navigator.connection.saveData inside a service worker to serve different or fewer assets!
11ty/api-indieweb-avatar: Return an optimized avatar image from a domain name input.
Here’s a nifty little service from Zach: pass in a URL and it returns an image of the site’s icon.
Think of it as the indie web alternative to showing Twitter avatars.
Let’s talk about failure
Denise shares a cautionary tale of service design gone wrong.
Full Stack Service Design – Sarah Drummond
Katie shared this (very good) piece about service design on Slack at work today, and when I got to the bit about different levels, my brain immediately went “pace layers!”
- The Service
- The Infrastructure
- The Organisation
- The Intent
- The Culture
Now THAT’S What I Call Service Worker! – A List Apart
This is terrific! Jeremy shows how you can implement a fairly straightforward service worker for performance gains, but then really kicks it up a notch with a recipe for turning a regular website into a speedy single page app without framework bloat.
1187179 - service worker NavigationPreload should trigger for frame requests - chromium
It’s official. The extremely niche browser behaviour I documented is a bug.
Progressier | Make your website a PWA in 42 seconds
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.
Building a client side proxy
This is a great way to use a service worker to circumvent censorship:
After the visitor opens the website once over a VPN, the service worker is downloaded and installed. The VPN can then be disabled, and the service worker will take over to request content from non-blocked servers, effectively acting as a proxy.
Service Workers | Go Make Things
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.
The amazing power of service workers | Go Make Things
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.
Always at Your Service · Matthias Ott – User Experience Designer
Thoughts on user experience design and service design, prompted by the Clearleft podcast:
I especially enjoyed the latest episode about a topic that has become a bit of a hyped buzzword over the last few years: Service design.
Rich with anecdotes and stories, the episode started with an investigation: What is service design, anyway?