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@interopio/browser-worker
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@interopio/browser-worker is a library, which is designed to be imported into a service worker file. The library enables the advanced notifications functionality of IO Connect Browser, which requires a Service Worker.
The package can be added to a service worker file in two ways. One is by using the importScripts()
method attached to the self
global object in the Service Worker scope. The library will then define and attach to the self
object a number of stateless functions.
The other way is to import the package just like any other JS package in your existing service worker project. Then you can build it and the output should be a single .js file, ready to be registered as a service worker.
The library gives access to three functions:
FAQs
IO Connect Browser service worker module
The npm package @interopio/browser-worker receives a total of 3 weekly downloads. As such, @interopio/browser-worker popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that @interopio/browser-worker demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 0 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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