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Learn Service Workers inside and Out with a New PWA Mastery Game

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It is a "preview" and currently does not contain any information about service workers. I did not realize that until I created an account, invested some time clicking through a bunch (too many) dialogue boxes, and was presented with a message that part 2 would be emailed to me. I do not currently feel enticed, I feel a bit annoyed. Nice flash animation but the title promises to teach something and that is misleading and should be changed.

Seconding. I wish I could downvote posts.

You can flag them

Agreed, I'm 2 pages in, the content renders too wide for mobile and I'm still none the wiser about what a service worker is. Very frustrating.

https://i.imgur.com/8Q6PBBp.png

Is this the definition of progressive web design? :)

To beat the game, you have to wait 24 hours or change the domain.

It had almost no content on actual Service Workers, and after 15 minutes of constant clicking, I had to just give up.

And here I was wondering why we needed to learn the insides and outsides of laborers in the service industry.

All you need to learn is in this article: "You need neither PWA nor AMP to make your website load fast" http://tonsky.me/blog/pwa/

I haven't tried it, but I'm curious if this game works offline.

I'm a huge fan of the new service workers functionality. Between it, and local storage, you can write offline web apps, which offer native app like functionality.

Can someone give me an example of a website that would be useful offline?

Entertainment sites like blogs or image boards, todo apps, note taking apps, recipe websites etc.

Basically PWAs allow you to build features that were only possible in native apps before.

Thanks! All native apps I use require internet connection anyway (reddit, Facebook, online games etc) but I guess I'm not a good representation.

I made a free to use PWA for organising team games. No connection needed: https://io.benfrain.com

I was working on an internal inventory tracking system a few months ago, and three weeks before delivery the product team discovered that the rooms where the back stock is counted have no wifi signal. I was able to make it work offline with a service worker in three days without major changes to the architecture.

Several years ago I was asked for a software for inhouse maintenance technicians (for AC).

As some of the customers were in the middle of nowhere, the technicians would have to check boxes on their checklists without the possibility to validate it online.

We add to go for a native app as service workers were not a thing at the time, but it would have save us a lot of time if we could have use plain html/js

I don't understand what this is about but I love the artwork!

Great idea! Looking fwd to checking this out.

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