I believe ServiceWorker is one of most important specifications for the next web world. Offline and its technologies are very friendly concepts to native application developers. But, now I think front-end developers have to know that for stepping into new paradigm. With ServiceWorker, you can make your web application can run offline, and it also means you can make your web application load extremely fast.
I've told about ServiceWorker very briefly in this slide. But you can understand how ServiceWorker runs on. If you want to know its usage, I highly recommend Topeka, which is a polymer demo application at google I/O 2014, that also includes material design and ServiceWorker in inside of it.
If you want to know ServiceWorker some more or in detail, I'd like to recommend to read the following, written by Jungkee Song, one of authors of this spec.
http://www.slideshare.net/jungkees/service-workers
5. Mission Impossible:
before the ‘ServiceWorker’!
● Truely controlling offline resources
o Application Cache? OMG!
o Everything managed by your webbrowser!
● Plus, background processing
o Remote Push Notification, Alarm,
Background-update of resources, ...
o Everything run on your webpage!
6. Mission completed:
‘ServiceWorker’ solves...
● Truely controlling offline/network stack
o Programmable cache control
o Custom response
● Plus, background processing
o Remote Push Notification
o Task Scheduler(e.g. Local Notification)
o BackgroundSync
o ...
8. Is Service Worker available?
● Specification is worked in progress. But,
o Installed
§ https://slightlyoff.github.io/ServiceWorker/
spec/service_worker/
o Activating
§ http://www.w3.org/TR/service-workers/
● See also: Is Service Worker ready?
o https://jakearchibald.github.io/
isserviceworkerready/
http://www.slideshare.net/jungkees/service-workersa
9. Overview:
● Event-driven scripts
Service Worker
o that run independently of web pages
● ServiceWorker has
o Access to domain-wide events such as
network fetches
o scriptable caches
o The ability to respond to network requests
from certain web pages via script
§ A way for applications to "go offline"
http://www.slideshare.net/jungkees/service-workersa
10. Overview:
● Principles & terms
Service Worker
o Run on same origin
o Registration keyed by URL scope
o Document is controlled by matching
SeviceWorker upon navigation
o Successfully installed worker is considered
worker in waiting
o Lifecycle events
o Functional events
http://www.slideshare.net/jungkees/service-workersa
11. Overview:
● Security
Service Worker
o Origin relativity
o Cross origin resource
o HTTPS only: preventing man-in-the-middle
attacks
http://www.slideshare.net/jungkees/service-workersa
16. What can we do with
ServiceWokers?
● Eliminating loading time
o Developer knows what is most important
resource in our webpages.
§ We can control ‘request/response flow’ and
‘cache’ with ServiceWorker.
§ and Front-end developers just write their code
without other libraries to control cache-flow.
o Your page will be loaded in an instant!!!
● Other features come and see us soon. :)
17. How to:
enable ‘Service Worker’
● Type in the url box
chrome://flags
or
chrome://flags/#enable-service-worker
● Check ‘enable’ like:
36+
18. How to:
know ‘Service Worker is working’
● Type in the url box:
chrome://inspect/#service-workers
● To see the registrations:
chrome://serviceworker-internals
20. Demo from Google I/O 2014:
● Install
Topeka
// ServiceWorker is ‘Installed’!!!
this.addEventListener("install", function(e) {
e.waitUntil( caches.create("core") // Creating Cache ‘core’!
.then(function(core) {
var resourceUrls = [
"",
"?offline",
"components/core-ajax/core-ajax.html",
// ...
];
return Promise.all(resourceUrls.map(function(relativeUrl) {
// Add resource to cache ‘core’
return core.add(baseUrl + relativeUrl);
}));
}));});
21. Demo from Google I/O 2014:
● fetch
this.addEventListener("fetch", function(e) {
var request = e.request;
if (this.scope.indexOf(request.origin) == -1) { return; }
// Basic read-through caching.
e.respondWith(
caches.match(request, "core").then(
function(response) { return response; },
function() {
// we didn't have it in the cache, so add it to the cache and return it
return caches.get("core").then(
function(core) { log("runtime caching:", request.url);
// FIXME(slighltyoff): add should take/return an array
return core.add(request).then(
function(response) {
return response;
});
// ...
Topeka
22. References
1. ServiceWorker first draft published
2. Specification
3. Explainer
4. Implemetation Considerations
5. Service Workers: Bring your own magic
6. Topeka Demo @Google I/O 2014