The Cache-with-Network-Fallback strategy
Explore the cache-with-network-fallback strategy for PWAs to understand how cached assets are served first, enabling faster load times, while ensuring network access recovers non-cached resources. Learn to implement this approach within a service worker, balancing quick loading and updated content delivery in your progressive web applications.
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Background
The cache-with-network-fallback strategy prioritizes cache over the network for its asset requirements. One major benefit of this strategy is that the app loads quickly even if we’re online because the app shell is already cached during pre-caching.
However, there’s also a disadvantage to this strategy. Let’s suppose any ...