The New Mobile Web: ServiceWorker, Push, and App Manifests

Presented by @callahad at JSConf Iceland, August 25th, 2016.

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Resources:

• Service Worker Cookbook, with many annotated demos of using service works in various ways, including push notifications, offline support, and more.
• Offline Cookbook, which comprehensively describes strategies for handling interactions between the network, service workers, and caches.
• Instant Loading: Building offline-first Progressive Web Apps - Google I/O 2016, an exceptional talk by Jake Archibald that incrementally converts a traditional web app to one that makes full use of service workers and manifests.
• MDN: Using Service Workers
• MDN: Service Worker APIs
• MDN: Push API
• Mozilla Hacks: Web Push Arrives in Firefox 44
• Bug 1285858, support for display: standalone in Firefox for Android

Experiments and Examples

• Pokedex.org, Nolan Lawson's offline, PWA-style Pokedex
• Ambient badging and “pop into browser”, Opera's experiments with the transitions between web-like and app-like experiences.
• sw-delta, Gaël Métais's experiment using service workers to patch cached files instead of retransmitting the whole thing.
• URLs into IndexedDB, Joshua Bell's experiment using service workers to fetch data from IndexedDB based on URLs.
• PWA.Rocks, an index of websites using Service Workers and App Manifests.