Advanced (injectManifest)
With this service worker strategy you can build your own service worker.
The vite-plugin-pwa plugin will compile your custom service worker and inject its service worker's precache manifest.
By default, the plugin will assume the service worker source code is located at the Vite's public folder with the name sw.js, that's, it will search in the following file: /public/sw.js.
If you want to change the location and/or the service worker name, you will need to change the following plugin options:
srcDir: must be relative to the project root folderfilename: including the file extension and must be relative to thesrcDirfolder
For example, if your service worker is located at /src/my-sw.js you must configure it using:
ts
import { VitePWA } from 'vite-plugin-pwa'
export default defineConfig({
plugins: [
VitePWA({
strategies: 'injectManifest',
srcDir: 'src',
filename: 'my-sw.js'
})
]
})
import { VitePWA } from 'vite-plugin-pwa'
export default defineConfig({
plugins: [
VitePWA({
strategies: 'injectManifest',
srcDir: 'src',
filename: 'my-sw.js'
})
]
})
Custom Service worker
We recommend you to use Workbox to build your service worker instead using importScripts, you will need to include workbox-* dependencies as dev dependencies to your project.
Plugin Configuration
You must configure strategies: 'injectManifest' in vite-plugin-pwa plugin options in your vite.config.ts file:
ts
VitePWA({
strategies: 'injectManifest',
})
VitePWA({
strategies: 'injectManifest',
})
Service Worker Code
Your custom service worker (public/sw.js) should have at least this code (you also need to install workbox-precaching as dev dependency to your project):
js
import { precacheAndRoute } from 'workbox-precaching'
precacheAndRoute(self.__WB_MANIFEST)
import { precacheAndRoute } from 'workbox-precaching'
precacheAndRoute(self.__WB_MANIFEST)
Cleanup Outdated Caches
The service worker will store all your application assets in a browser cache (or set of caches). Every time you make changes to your application and rebuild it, the service worker will be also rebuild, including in its precache manifest all new modified assets, which will have their revision changed (all assets that have been modified will have a new version). Assets that have not been modified will also be included in the service worker precache manifest, but their revision will not change from the previous one.
Precache Manifest Entry Revision
The precache manifest entry revision is just a MD5 hash of the asset content, if an asset is not modified, the calculated hash will be always the same.
When the user installs the new version of the application, we will have on the service worker cache all new assets and also the old ones. To delete old assets (from previous versions that are no longer necessary), and since you are building your own service worker, you will need to add the following code to your custom service worker:
js
import { cleanupOutdatedCaches, precacheAndRoute } from 'workbox-precaching'
cleanupOutdatedCaches()
precacheAndRoute(self.__WB_MANIFEST)
import { cleanupOutdatedCaches, precacheAndRoute } from 'workbox-precaching'
cleanupOutdatedCaches()
precacheAndRoute(self.__WB_MANIFEST)
We strongly recommend you to include previous code on your custom service worker.
Generate SW Source Map
Since you are building your own service worker, this plugin will use Vite's build.sourcemap configuration option, which default value is false, to generate the source map.
If you want to generate the source map for your service worker, you will need to generate the source map for the entire application.
Auto Update Behavior
If you need your custom service worker works with Auto Update behavior, you need to change the plugin configuration options and add some custom code to your service worker code.
Plugin Configuration
You must configure registerType: 'autoUpdate' to vite-plugin-pwa plugin options in your vite.config.ts file:
ts
VitePWA({
registerType: 'autoUpdate'
})
VitePWA({
registerType: 'autoUpdate'
})
Service Worker Code
You must include in your service worker code at least this code (you also need to install workbox-core as dev dependency to your project):
js
import { clientsClaim } from 'workbox-core'
self.skipWaiting()
clientsClaim()
import { clientsClaim } from 'workbox-core'
self.skipWaiting()
clientsClaim()
Prompt For Update Behavior
If you need your custom service worker works with Prompt For Update behavior, you need to change your service worker code.
Service Worker Code
You need to include on your service worker at least this code:
js
self.addEventListener('message', (event) => {
if (event.data && event.data.type === 'SKIP_WAITING')
self.skipWaiting()
})
self.addEventListener('message', (event) => {
if (event.data && event.data.type === 'SKIP_WAITING')
self.skipWaiting()
})
TypeScript support
You can use TypeScript to write your custom service worker. To resolve service worker types, just add WebWorker to lib entry on your tsconfig.json file:
json
{
"compilerOptions": {
"lib": ["ESNext", "DOM", "WebWorker"]
}
}
{
"compilerOptions": {
"lib": ["ESNext", "DOM", "WebWorker"]
}
}
Plugin Configuration
We recommend you to put your custom service worker inside src directory.
You need to configure srcDir: 'src' and filename: 'sw.ts' plugin options in your vite.config.ts file, configure both options with the directory and the name of your custom service worker properly:
ts
VitePWA({
srcDir: 'src',
filename: 'sw.ts'
})
VitePWA({
srcDir: 'src',
filename: 'sw.ts'
})
Service Worker Code
You need to define self scope with ServiceWorkerGlobalScope:
ts
import { precacheAndRoute } from 'workbox-precaching'
declare let self: ServiceWorkerGlobalScope
precacheAndRoute(self.__WB_MANIFEST)
import { precacheAndRoute } from 'workbox-precaching'
declare let self: ServiceWorkerGlobalScope
precacheAndRoute(self.__WB_MANIFEST)