[chrismorgan]

I’m curious how you mean to work around the forced reload problem, because the way I’m looking at it, it’s impossible to work around, by design.

I say: feel free to use service workers, but do not feel free to depend on service workers. They must be optional in general-purpose websites.

[thagsimmons]

Very few things are impossible to work around. In this case, you can detect that the service worker is no longer controlling the page, and do something about it: re-register the worker, soft reload the page, etc. I've also seen people do dodgier things like trying to intercept hard reloads, but that's not necessary.

At any rate, this is more of a StackOverflow question than an HN question, and the details of what works will differ from project to project.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51597231/register-servic...