[ilovecomputers]

Since we are on the topic of effectively distributing JS code to clients...why is there no push for delta updates on the web? There was a proposal for delta caching back in 2002: https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3229

[spankalee]

Service Workers can help here:

  1. Load the cached resource
  2. Fire off a background request for any delta updates
  3. Apply delta and update cache
  4. Next load use the new resource