Currently the Service Worker checks for updates only on SW startup,
an event which happens frequently but also nondeterministically. This
makes it hard for developers to observe the update process or reason
about how updates will be delivered to users. This problem is
exacerbated by the DevTools behavior of keeping the SW alive
indefinitely while opened, effectively preventing the page from
updating at all.
This change causes the SW to additionally check for updates on
navigation requests (app page reloads). This creates deterministic
update behavior, and is much easier for developers to reason about.
It does leave the old update-on-SW-startup behavior in place, as
removing that would be a breaking change.
Fixes#20877
Add enough BUILD files to make it possible to
`bazel build packages/core/test`
Also re-format BUILD.bazel files with Buildifier.
Add a CI lint check that they stay formatted.
PR Close#20768
Not every application is served from the domain root. The Service
Worker made a bad assumption that it would be, and so requested
/ngsw.json from the domain root.
This change corrects this assumption, and requests ngsw.json without
the leading slash. This causes the request to be interpreted
relative to the SW origin, which will be the application root.
This commit fixes several issues discovered through use in real apps.
* The sha1() function operated on text content, causing issues for binary-format files.
A sha1Binary() function which operates on unparsed data now avoids any encoding issues.
* The characters '?' and '+' were not escaped in Glob-to-regex conversion previously, but
are now.
* URLs from the browser contain the full origin, but were checked against the table of
hashes from the manifest which only has the path for URLs from the same origin. Now the
origin is checked and URLs are relativized to the domain root before comparison if
appropriate.
* ngsw: prefix was missing from data groups, is now added.
* Occasionally servers will return a redirected response for an asset, and caching it could
cause errors for navigation requests. The SW now handles this by detecting such responses
and following the redirect manually, to avoid caching a redirected response.
* The request for known assets is now created from scratch from the URL before fetching from
the network, in order to sanitize it and avoid carrying any special modes or headers that
might result in opaque responses.
* Debugging log for troubleshooting.
* Avoid creating errors by returning 504 responses on error.
* Fix bug where idle queue doesn't run in some circumstances.
* Add tests for the above.
This service worker is a conceptual derivative of the existing @angular/service-worker maintained at github.com/angular/mobile-toolkit, but has been rewritten to support use across a much wider variety of applications.
Entrypoints include:
@angular/service-worker: a library for use within Angular client apps to communicate with the service worker.
@angular/service-worker/gen: a library for generating ngsw.json files from glob-based SW config files.
@angular/service-worker/ngsw-worker.js: the bundled service worker script itself.
@angular/service-worker/ngsw-cli.js: a CLI tool for generating ngsw.json files from glob-based SW config files.
Alex Rickabaugh
Alex Eagle