Angular Service Worker, caching api calls for offline app

Ced picture Ced · Jan 24, 2018 · Viewed 9.7k times · Source

I'm trying to make the service worker in angular work with API requests. I'd like the app to work offline and I've the below config:

    {
        "name": "api",
        "urls": ["https://x.com/**"],
        "cacheConfig": {
            "strategy": "performance",
            "maxSize": 20,
            "maxAge": "365d",
            "timeout": "5s"
        }
    }

Here is what the xhr tab looks like when I'm offline:

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and this is the content of the user request:

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As you can see the API calls for user don't resolve.

This is what the response of user looks like when online:

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Answer

Nadhir Falta picture Nadhir Falta · Jan 24, 2018

Try this:

  • Go to your application tab -> Clear Storage -> Clear Site Data.
  • Change your DataGroups array from this:

    {
        "name": "api",
        "urls": ["https://x.com/**"],
        "cacheConfig": {
            "strategy": "performance",
            "maxSize": 20,
            "maxAge": "365d",
            "timeout": "5s"
        }
    }
    

To this:

"dataGroups": [
    {
      "name": "api-performance",
      "urls": [
        "/user" //<=========== I know you want all API calls to be cached, but try this first and see
      ],
      "cacheConfig": {
        "strategy": "performance",
        "maxSize": 100,
        "maxAge": "3d"
      }
    }
  ]
  • save and build your app in PROD,
  • visit the page the first time.
  • disable network
  • refresh your page