AIO is currently using a beta version of @angular/service-worker.
Since that was implemented, the SW has been rewritten and released
as part of Angular 5.0.0. This commit updates AIO to use the latest
implementation, with an appropriate configuration file that caches
the various AIO assets in useful ways.
PR Close#19795
This commit also waits for the app to stabilize, before starting to
check for ServiceWorker updates. This avoids setting up a long timeout,
which would prevent the app from stabilizing and thus cause issues with
Protractor.
PR Close#22483
Previouly, whenever a new ServiceWorker update was detected the user was
prompted to update (with a notification). This turned out to be more distracting
than helpful. Also, one would get notifications on all open browser tabs/windows
and had to manually reload each one in order for the whole content (including
the app) to be updated.
This commit changes the update strategy as follows:
- Whenever a new update is detected, it is immediately activated (and all
tabs/windows will be notified).
- Once an update is activated (regardless of whether the activation was
initiated by the current tab/window or not), a flag will be set to do a
"full page navigation" the next time the user navigates to a document.
Benefits:
- All tabs/windows are updated asap.
- The updates are applied authomatically, without the user's needing to do
anything.
- The updates are applied in a way that:
a. Ensures that the app and content versions are always compatible.
b. Does not distract the user from their usual workflow.
NOTE:
The "full page navigation" may cause a flash (while the page is loading from
scratch), but this is expected to be minimal, since at that point almost all
necessary resources are cached by and served from the ServiceWorker.
Fixes#17539
Previously, due ot a limitation/bug in AoT compilation and `useValue`, the
`global` injected into `SwUpdateNotificationsService` was always undefined,
which prevented it from actually reloading the page after activating a
ServiceWorker update.
This commit fixes it by switching to `useFactory`, which works correctly with
AoT.
