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The register-service-worker npm package is a utility for registering service workers in web applications. It simplifies the process of setting up service workers, handling updates, and managing the service worker lifecycle events.
Basic Service Worker Registration
This feature allows you to register a service worker with various lifecycle hooks such as ready, registered, cached, updatefound, updated, offline, and error. These hooks provide callbacks for different stages of the service worker's lifecycle.
import { register } from 'register-service-worker';
register('/service-worker.js', {
ready() {
console.log('Service worker is active.');
},
registered() {
console.log('Service worker has been registered.');
},
cached() {
console.log('Content has been cached for offline use.');
},
updatefound() {
console.log('New content is downloading.');
},
updated() {
console.log('New content is available; please refresh.');
},
offline() {
console.log('No internet connection found. App is running in offline mode.');
},
error(error) {
console.error('Error during service worker registration:', error);
}
});
Custom Service Worker Path
This feature allows you to specify a custom path for your service worker file. It provides the same lifecycle hooks as the basic registration but uses a different service worker script.
import { register } from 'register-service-worker';
register('/custom-service-worker.js', {
ready() {
console.log('Custom service worker is active.');
},
registered() {
console.log('Custom service worker has been registered.');
},
cached() {
console.log('Custom content has been cached for offline use.');
},
updatefound() {
console.log('New custom content is downloading.');
},
updated() {
console.log('New custom content is available; please refresh.');
},
offline() {
console.log('No internet connection found. Custom app is running in offline mode.');
},
error(error) {
console.error('Error during custom service worker registration:', error);
}
});
The workbox-webpack-plugin is a plugin for webpack that generates a service worker using Workbox. It provides more advanced features like precaching, runtime caching, and strategies for handling different types of requests. Compared to register-service-worker, it offers more comprehensive service worker management and is more suitable for complex applications.
The sw-precache package is a tool for generating a service worker that precaches resources. It is similar to register-service-worker in that it simplifies the process of setting up a service worker, but it focuses more on precaching and less on lifecycle event handling. It is a good choice for applications that need robust caching strategies.
The serviceworker-webpack-plugin is another webpack plugin that simplifies the creation and registration of service workers. It allows you to write your service worker code in a modular way and integrates well with the webpack build process. Compared to register-service-worker, it offers more flexibility in how the service worker is written and managed.
A script to simplify service worker registration with hooks for common events.
Note: this script uses ES modules export and is expected to be used with a client side bundler that can handle ES modules syntax.
import { register } from 'register-service-worker'
register('/service-worker.js', {
registrationOptions: { scope: './' },
ready (registration) {
console.log('Service worker is active.')
},
registered (registration) {
console.log('Service worker has been registered.')
},
cached (registration) {
console.log('Content has been cached for offline use.')
},
updatefound (registration) {
console.log('New content is downloading.')
},
updated (registration) {
console.log('New content is available; please refresh.')
},
offline () {
console.log('No internet connection found. App is running in offline mode.')
},
error (error) {
console.error('Error during service worker registration:', error)
}
})
The ready
, registered
, cached
, updatefound
and updated
events passes a ServiceWorkerRegistration instance in their arguments.
The registrationOptions
object will be passed as the second argument to ServiceWorkerContainer.register()
FAQs
Script for registering service worker, with hooks
The npm package register-service-worker receives a total of 137,996 weekly downloads. As such, register-service-worker popularity was classified as popular.
We found that register-service-worker demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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