@gasket/plugin-workbox
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Gasket Workbox Plugin
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@gasket/plugin-workbox
Provides precaching and runtimeCaching via Workbox.
Precaching downloads an app's pages, chunks, and assets and stores this on the device, before they are actually needed. This happens asynchronously and results in a faster experience. Additionally, other files and be cached with on-demand strategies, such as cacheFirst, or networkFirst.
This plugin implements service worker configuration using Workbox. Workbox is a library that bakes in a set of best practices and removes the boilerplate every developer writes when working with service workers.
Installation
npm i @gasket/plugin-workbox
Update your gasket
file plugin configuration:
// gasket.js
+ import pluginWorkbox from '@gasket/plugin-workbox';
export default makeGasket({
plugins: [
+ pluginWorkbox
]
});
Configuration
Set the Workbox options, in the gasket.js
under workbox
.
outputDir
- (string) The path to the directory in which the Workbox libraries should be copied (default:./build/workbox
)basePath
- (string) Change the default path to/_workbox
endpoint by adding a path prefix here. (default: ''). Used for setting up CDN support for Workbox files.config
: (object) Any initial workbox config options which will be merged with those from anyworkbox
lifecycle hooks.
Example config
// gasket.js
export default makeGasket({
workbox: {
config: {
runtimeCaching: [{
urlPattern: /.png$/,
handler: 'cacheFirst'
}]
}
}
});
Lifecycles
workbox
This hook allows other Gasket plugins to add to the Workbox config in order to precache files, set runtime cache rules, etc. Hooks should return an object partial which will be deeply merged.
export default {
name: 'sample-plugin',
hooks: {
workbox: function (gasket, config, context) {
// `config` is the initial workbox config
// `context` is the service-worker context.
const { req, res } = context;
if(req) {
// adjust config for request-based service workers using headers, cookies, etc.
}
// return a config partial which will be merged
return {
runtimeCaching: [{
urlPattern: /https:\/\/some.api.com/,
handler: 'networkFirst'
}]
}
}
}
}
For advanced configurations, be sure to read the workbox config options for generateSWString.
How it works
For a service worker request, a config object is constructed by the Workbox lifecycle hook, it is to generateSWString from the workbox-build module. This will generate a string with service worker code for workbox which is then appended to the service worker content in the composeServiceWorker hook from @gasket/plugin-service-worker.
During the build
hook, the Workbox libraries are copied to the build output
directory so that they can be served by the app. The service worker will then
import these scripts, with requests to the /_workbox
static files served by
the app. These can be set up to edge cache by setting the basePath
option.