Improve (offline) user experience with Service Worker Toolbox

In the last post I introduced a push notification feature for this blog, which requires a Service Worker. This post is about making more use of this Service Worker by improving the (offline) user experience with Service Worker Toolbox. In case you don’t know what this Service Worker thingy is, I can recommend reading this and this article. Feature overkill? In order to cache resources and intercept requests there’s quite some code to write....

April 26, 2016 · 7 min · Dustin Chabrowski

Now supporting push notifications

With this day I finally implemented a simple subscription system using push notifications for new posts! 🚀 To get notified when a new post is published, simply check the box in the navigation panel and you’re registered. You will be asked to give your permission for this site to send you notifications. You can confirm it, I won’t spam you, I promise! If there’s no button visible, your browser lacks support for the required technologies 👎...

April 10, 2016 · 5 min · Dustin Chabrowski