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VUE PWA Autorefresh new content

As I figured out, this question is really only related to beginners in PWA, which don't know that you can (and need) to configure PWA for achieving this. If you feel addressed now (and using VueJS) remember:

To automatically download the new content, you need to configure PWA. In my case (VueJS) this is done by creating a file vue.config.js in the root directory of my project (On the same level as package.json).

Inside this file you need this:

module.exports = {
    pwa: {
        workboxOptions: {
            skipWaiting: true
        }
    }
}

Which will automatically download your new content if detected. However, the content won't be displayed to your client yet, since it needs to refresh after downloading the content. I did this by adding window.location.reload(true) to registerServiceWorker.js in my src/ directory:

updated () {
    console.log('New content is available: Please refresh.')
    window.location.reload(true)
},

Now, if the Service Worker detects new content, it will download it automatically and refresh the page afterwards.