Service workers tomorrow
summary
TPAC updates from the Service Workers WG list concrete changes and proposals: browsers remove the old surprise where an unregistering worker could “resurrect” — no resurrection after unregister — with the fix already in Firefox and Safari and Chrome in progress; a new way to get a live ServiceWorker object from its registration lands soon; page lifecycle rules (active/visible/hidden/frozen/discarded/bfcache) now determine when a worker blocks deletion; an immediate: true to force-unregister option is proposed; finer scope/matching controls, streaming responses are live but request body streaming not yet implemented, and experimental ideas include content indexing and a launch event for PWAs.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:39W3C discussion recap
- 3:24Reviving Service Worker
- 5:54Self-referencing link
- 6:38Page lifecycle
- 9:08Service Worker removal
- 10:55Forced removal
- 11:39Cache fine-tuning
- 12:44Fetch response delay
- 13:32Streaming responses
- 14:57Request streaming bodies
- 16:05Content indexing
- 17:49App launch event
- 18:54Future impact
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