Reacting to Incoming Events in a Service Worker
Explore how to react to incoming events like install and activate in a service worker. Understand using event listeners to manage caching and lifecycle phases, improving offline support and app reliability.
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As service workers run in the background, their purpose is to handle events. Therefore, we attach event listeners to the service worker to react to these events.
The self keyword is used to refer to the service worker. To add an event listener, we use the addEventListener() method on this self object.
Note: Service workers don’t have DOM access, so we can’t listen to DOM events like ...