Overview [1] [2]#
Service Worker are typically a component of a Progressive Web Application and provide a scriptable network proxy in the web browser to manage the web/HTTP Requests programmatically.Service Workers lie between the network and device to supplement the content.
Service Worker are capable of using the cache mechanisms efficiently and allow error-free behavior during offline periods.
Service Workers are an incredibly powerful, and equally as confusing, technology behind a Progressive Web Application
Service Worker is a script that your browser runs in the background, separate from a Web page, opening the door to features that don't need a Web page or user interaction.
Properties of Service Workers#
- Trigger and keep alive by the relationship to the events, not by the documents
- Generic in nature
- Event-driven with time limit scripting contexts and running at the origin
- With natural endpoints for a wide range of runtime services
- Have a state
- With a script URL
- Containing registration
- Allocated ID or UUID
- With life cycle events
- Have script resource map
- Can skip waiting for the flags
Benefits of Service Workers#
- Capable of handling the push notification easily
- Synchronization of data in the background
- Capable of responding to the resource requests originate elsewhere
- Receive centralized updates
More Information#
There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:- [#1] - What are Progressive Web Apps?
- based on information obtained 2017-08-02-
- [#2] - Progressive_web_app - based on information obtained 2017-08-02-
