webpack-add-sw-plugin

A webpack plugin to incorporate your own service worker to your build process by adding a unique hash for cache versioning and adding all the emitted assets.

installation

yarn add -D webpack-add-sw-plugin

or

npm install --save-dev webpack-add-sw-plugin

usage

require and add the plugin inside our webpack.config.js

const AddSW = require('webpack-add-sw-plugin');
module.exports {
	...
	plugin: [
		new AddSW({
			src: './src/sw.js',              // path to your service worker
			filename: 'service-worker.js'    // name of the emitted service worker by the plugin (a service worker with the name `service-worker.js` will be created inside your output directory)
		})
	]
}

consider the following directory structure

-src
--*other files and folders*
--sw.js
-node_modules
-package.json
-webpack.config.js

%VERSION% will be replaced by a unique hash & %ASSETS% will be replaced an array of paths to the emitted assets.

/* src/sw.js */

const cacheVersion =  '%VERSION%';
const assets =  %ASSETS%;

self.addEventListener('install', event  => {
	event.waitUntil(
		caches.open(cacheVersion)
			.then(cache  => cache.addAll(assets))
			.then(self.skipWaiting())
	);
});

self.addEventListener('fetch', event  => {
	event.respondWith(
		caches.match(event.request).then(cachedResponse  => {
		if (cachedResponse) {
			return cachedResponse;
		} else 
			throw new Error(':(')
	);
});

Note

register the service worker as you normally would in your any other js file but make sure that you register using the filename that you used in the options of the plugin in your webpack.config.js.