Service Workers – The Unsung Heroes of Modern Web

The strategy of using service workers to power your app experience even in the most dire of circumstances is a concept that is still vastly underrated in today’s web.

Even in the world of 5G as a standard, there are still plenty of circumstances where your user may be without a network. What about the user who is road tripping and decides to brave the In n’ Out drive thru because the Chipotle app experience performed god awful with only one bar?

With a little JavaScript helper, we can help that user and so many others who find themselves in a bind. The beauty is that the JavaScript language was so thoughtful to include an interface just for us to do this.