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Simple Service Worker didactic POC - caching outbound requests
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
if (!navigator.serviceWorker.controller) {
navigator.serviceWorker.register('/sw.js', { scope: '.'}).then(function(registration) {
console.log('ServiceWorker registration successful with scope: ', registration.scope);
window.location.reload();
}).catch(function(err) {
console.log('ServiceWorker registration failed: ', err);
});
} else {
console.log('service worker already registered');
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<img src="http://www.banditbrandit.com/Assets/Images/Silhouette.gif"> <!-- gets trapped -->
<img src="Label.gif"> <!-- gets trapped -->
<iframe src="http://www.banditbrandit.com"></iframe> <!-- won't work, as origin domain is different from Service Worker domain -->
</body>
<html>
var CACHE_NAME = 'sw-test';
var installed = false;
// Set the callback for the install step
self.addEventListener('install', function(event) {
console.log('sw installed');
});
self.addEventListener('activate', function(event) {
// Calling claim() to force a "controllerchange" event on navigator.serviceWorker
console.log('sw activated');
event.waitUntil(self.clients.claim());
});
self.addEventListener('fetch', function(event) {
console.log('fetch event ocurred for: ', event.request.url);
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) {
return response;
}
console.log('response.type ', response.type);
// 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 2 stream.
var responseToCache = response.clone();
caches.open(CACHE_NAME)
.then(function(cache) {
cache.put(event.request, responseToCache);
});
return response;
}
);
})
);
});
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Service worker diagnostic pages in Chrome:

  • chrome://serviceworker-internals/
  • chrome://inspect/#service-workers

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