Service Workers
Has Service Worker usage increased on this website over the past four years?
It's been almost four years since I started collecting data on Service Worker usage and support on this website and in this article I show the details.
Service Workers
If you've ever wanted to learn more about Service Workers, look no further than this list of articles based on the basics of Service Workers and how you can leverage them in your next web project.
Progressive Web Apps
Brewfather - Progressive App Review
In my spare time I enjoy a little bit of homebrewing. What first started out as an experiment with a beer kit, soon turned into a geeky fascination with the science behind brewing beer. I am one of those annoying people that sniffs the beer and comments on the aroma
Determining Service Worker Support for your Site
Have you ever thought about building a Progressive Web App or even adding a service worker to your website? Perhaps you’ve considered it, but weren’t too sure about whether or not your users were on browsers that supported these features. Would they even benefit from their features? Speaking
How to display a "new version available" for a Progressive Web App
In this article, I will show you how to add a notification to your site and display it each time that there is a new version of the service worker available. You’ll also learn how to refresh the page, so that the user is up to date and has the latest version of any cached files.
Service Workers
Service Workers: Save your User's Data using the Save-Data Header
I was recently travelling abroad when I urgently needed to get some information from the website of my airline. I was on a sketchy 2G connection that took forever to load the page, and eventually I ended up giving up completely. I was also paying a fortune for this daily
Service Workers
Create a really, really simple offline page using Service Workers
Let's imagine for a second that you are on a train. The train is cruising through the countryside and you are reading an awesome article on the web using your mobile device. At the same moment that you click on a link to view more details, the train
Service Workers
Getting started with the Service Worker Toolbox
I've been playing around with Service Workers a lot lately. I am super excited about the great features that they bring to the web. Offline pages, push notifications and flexible caching are just a few of the great features that they bring to the table. Using these built-in
Service Workers
Service Workers: Dynamic Responsive Images using WebP Images
Images play an important role on the web today. Imagine a world without images on our web pages! High quality images can really make a website stand out, but unfortunately they come with a price to pay. Due to their large file sizes, they are bulky to download and result
Service Workers
Push Notifications on the Web - Google Chrome
A while ago I built a fun side project on Github to keep a collection of typography links and tools that caught my eye. There are a number of people that follow the project on Github, but every time I make a change or add a new link, I normally