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While not the most amusingly named feature of the web platform, everything seems to point at ServiceWorker being the most significant addition to the web platform since the introduction of AJAX – over 10 years ago. Not to be confused with WebWorker (used to offload intense compute operations onto another execution thread), ServiceWorker allows you to intercept (and hijack) network requests originating from your site before they’re even dispatched. This article explores how it works, what it means and what it enables, and how you can implement it by following a case study.

Needless to say, the native apps fared better and more gracefully degraded when no internet connection was available. Offline is a feature and it’s crucial we start to consider it from the start of a project as apposed to adding support later in the development lifecycle.