9 Best Articles on Service Workers
The most useful articles on service workers from around the web—beginners to advanced—curated by thought leaders and our community. We focus on timeless pieces and update the list whenever we discover new, must-read articles or videos—make sure to bookmark and revisit this page.
Top 5 Service Workers Articles
At a glance: these are the articles that have been most read, shared, and saved on service workers by Refind users in 2023.
Videos
Watch a video to get a quick overview.
Service Workers - The State of the Web
In this month's episode Rick Viscomi and Jeff Posnick (Google Chrome Developer Relations) discuss the state of service workers. Service workers are a new kin...
What is ...?
New to #service workers? These articles make an excellent introduction.
Service Workers: an Introduction | Web | Google Developers
Rich offline experiences, periodic background syncs, push notifications—functionality that would normally require a native application—are coming to the web. Service workers provide the technical foundation that all these features rely on.
Short Articles
Short on time? Check out these useful short articles on service workers—all under 10 minutes.
Random notes around service workers development and testing
In this post I'll share a bunch of tips and tricks I learned through the years around service workers development and testing
Smaller HTML Payloads with Service Workers
Many developers know that you can use service workers to cache web pages (and their sub-resources) in order to serve those pages to users when they’re offline.And while this is true, it’s far from the…
Service Workers at Slack: Our Quest for Faster Boot Times and Offline Support
Using a CDN-cached HTML file, a persisted Redux store, and a Service Worker, we reduced Slack boot time by more than 50%.
Web workers vs Service workers vs Worklets
Web workers, service workers, and worklets. All of these are what I would call “Javascript Workers”, and although they do have some similarities in how they work, they have very little overlap in what they are used for. Broadly speaking, a worker is a script that runs on a thread
Background Sync with Service Workers
Service workers have been having a moment. In March 2018, iOS Safari began including service workers — so all major browsers at this point support offline options. And this is more important than ever…
Long Articles
These are some of the most-read long-form articles on service workers.
Every website deserves a service worker
Service workers ensure users can access your sites assets (CSS, images, Javascript) even when your site is offline for an app-like experience.
ServiceWorker: Revolution of the Web Platform
While not the most amusingly named feature of the web platform, everything seems to point at ServiceWorker being the most significant addition to the web platform since …
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