How to display a “new version available” for a Progressive Web App

Dean Hume:

I’ve built a number of Progressive Web Apps that simply update the service worker silently for the user in the background, but I really like the approach where you get a popup notification that suggests that there is a new version of the site available like Google’s Inbox provides – especially for an offline first web app. […] It got me wondering how I could build something a little similar and it turns out that it is a little tricker than it seems – but it is not impossible!

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Published by Bramus!

Bramus is a frontend web developer from Belgium, working as a Chrome Developer Relations Engineer at Google. From the moment he discovered view-source at the age of 14 (way back in 1997), he fell in love with the web and has been tinkering with it ever since (more …)

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