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Install Service Worker and cache new requests cumulatively (Only GET method)
var CACHE_NAME = 'example-cache-v1';
var urlsToCache = [];
self.addEventListener('install', function(event) {
// Perform install steps
event.waitUntil(
caches.open(CACHE_NAME)
.then(function(cache) {
console.log('Opened cache');
return cache.addAll(urlsToCache);
})
);
});
self.addEventListener('fetch', function(event) {
// Only cache GET method
if(event.request.method === 'GET') {
event.respondWith(
caches.match(event.request)
.then(function (response) {
// Cache hit - return response
if (response) {
return response;
}
// IMPORTANT: Clone the request. A request is a stream and
// can only be consumed once. Since we are consuming this
// once by cache and once by the browser for fetch, we need
// to clone the response.
var fetchRequest = event.request.clone();
return fetch(fetchRequest).then(
function (response) {
// Check if we received a valid response
if (!response || response.status !== 200 || response.type !== 'basic') {
return response;
}
// IMPORTANT: Clone the response. A response is a stream
// and because we want the browser to consume the response
// as well as the cache consuming the response, we need
// to clone it so we have two streams.
var responseToCache = response.clone();
caches.open(CACHE_NAME)
.then(function (cache) {
cache.put(event.request, responseToCache);
});
return response;
}
);
})
);
}
})
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