Unpoly as a PWA

[Adam Daniels]

Has anybody implemented Unpoly in a PWA scenario?

I wonder if a service worker could be paired with up.proxy to give us the Unpoly goodness and appease the PWA requirements that Chrome is currently imposing.

Thoughts?

[svsdehh]

yes, my application is a pwa and I have recently enhanced some pages with unpoly -- but with mixed results (see my question in this group).

Kind regards
Sven

[Henning Koch]

Last Christmas I made a strawman proposal for how Unpoly could improve
browser behavior when offline:

http://triskweline.de/unpoly-offline/

Introducing a default Service Worker is a small part of the proposal
(last section in the slides).

I'm still quite convinced of most of the strawman: Showing links
reachability, rescuing unsaved forms, extending cache duration when offline.

However I have recently become unsure about adding a default Service
Worker. create-react-app has recently added a default Service Worker,
but removed it again because of spotty browser support and unexpected
behavior for novice users
(https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/issues/2398).

Best regards
Henning

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[Adam Daniels]

Thanks for the replies.

I agree that a service worker shouldn't be default in Unpoly, but happy to know that my thought process was similar re: moving the Unpoly proxy cache into the worker. With Apple announcing service worker support for Safari, it might change the current opinion on service workers.

I was hoping to be able to trigger the Add to Desktop style modals that Chrome will present under specific PWA criteria - but I've heard that an empty service worker will do that anyways, regardless of any fetching / caching done.

I guess we'll see what happens :)

(Henning, you should have a list of your Unpoly presentations somewhere. The unpoly-rugb talk was full of great tidbits that weren't on the website, IIRC.)

[Philippe Jadin]

Hello,

Reviving this thread : is there any experiment in using unpoly and recomendations for doing it properly in 2020?

Unpoly + PWA methodology will most probably rocks!