javascriptcachingservice-workerprogressive-web-appsoffline-mode

PWA offline mode not loading from cache on mobile browsers


I wrote a simple PWA (current version) based on this tutorial by Vaadin. It works fine, tested in Chrome, also in offline mode.

By using it on a mobile device, issues occur:

I thought that is, what the PWA is good for? Why does it not load the static assets? I think my service-worker is just fine:

const staticAssets = [
    './',
    './styles.css',
    './app.js',
    './images',
    './fallback.json',
    './images/system/offline.png'
]



self.addEventListener('install', async event => {
    const cache = await caches.open('static-assets');
    cache.addAll(staticAssets);
});

self.addEventListener('fetch', event => {
    const req = event.request;
    const url = new URL(req.url);

    if(url.origin === location.origin){
        event.respondWith(cacheFirst(req));
    }else{
        event.respondWith(networkFirst(req));
    }

});


async function cacheFirst(req){
    const cachedResponse = await caches.match(req);
    return cachedResponse || fetch(req);
}

async function networkFirst(req){
    const cache = await caches.open('dynamic-content');
    try{
        const res = await fetch(req);
        cache.put(req, res.clone());
        return res;
    }catch(err){
        const cachedResponse = await cache.match(req);
        return cachedResponse || caches.match('./fallback.json');
    }
}

I'm happy to share more code, if you think the problem is somewhere else!


Solution

  • The problem was within the service-worker:

    I forgot to add the service worker file to the static assets.

    Found the solution by reading the answers of this question: https://stackoverflow.com/a/44482764/7350000.