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Beginning Server-Side Application Development with Angular
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Beginning Server-Side Application Development with Angular

by Bram Borggreve
April 2018
Intermediate content levelIntermediate
110 pages
2h 12m
English
Packt Publishing
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Debugging the Service Worker

There is a famous saying in computer science:

"There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things."

-Phil Karlton

The first one applies to debugging service workers.

As discussed earlier, a service worker adds a caching layer between the network and the device. This inherently makes it hard to debug, because when you update your service worker definition or the configuration of your website, your changes might very well be cached, and thus not visible.

It is a quite well-known challenge while developing applications with service worker support, so it's good to understand how to debug the service worker.

Chrome Developer Tools to the Rescue

Chrome Developer Tools is an advanced tool for inspecting ...

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