Server-Side Enterprise Development with Angular

3. Service Workers

Learning Objectives

By the end of the chapter, you will be able to:

• Add a service worker to the application
• Configure the service worker cache
• Test and debug the service worker

This chapter teaches us how to make our app into an Angular PWA and configure and test service workers for our app.

Introduction

In this chapter, we will add a service worker to the application that we built in the previous chapters.

We will add the Angular service worker module to our application and configure it to convert the app into a Progressive Web App.

What is a Service Worker?

A service worker is a script that the browser runs in the background that acts as a network proxy to manage network requests programmatically. It sits between ...