Feature: ServiceWorker support in CLI

[hansl]

Requested by @alxhub.

This is non 1.0 blocking but will be tracked in the 1.0.

[coryrylan]

For reference for anyone who wants to use service workers with the CLI now its not to much work using the sw-precache library. I have a blog post and working demo here. https://coryrylan.com/blog/fast-offline-angular-apps-with-service-workers

[justingrayston]

@hansl I notice that this is marked Done in Tracking and I see @alxhub branch here https://github.com/alxhub/angular-cli/tree/sw-support do you have an idea of when this might get a PR? I know you guys are really busy and you are doing a great job, I only ask because I was thinking of trying to figure out some plugin to help server a service worker. So before I get my hands too dirty, I thought I'd be cheeky and see if we are looking weeks or months here?

[filipesilva]

Closed via cb2e418

[justingrayston]

Awesome, sorry I didn't see it.

[alexjlockwood]

I'm having trouble getting this to work... and I feel like it has something to do with the fact that I'm setting --base-href=/SubDirectory/ when I build. Any reason why the service worker wouldn't work when this argument is set?

[osnoser1]

Maybe this will help: Feature: Route redirection to index.html.
@alexjlockwood

[alexjlockwood]

@osnoser1 Thanks for the tip! Are you suggesting I manually update the ngsw-manifest.json file after I build?

[osnoser1]

For now yes. 😃

[alxhub]

@alexjlockwood, create a ngsw-manifest.json file with only the routing config specified in your project root. The generated manifest with file hashes will be merged into it at build time.

[alexjlockwood]

@alxhub Sorry for being a complete noob here, but do you mean like this?

{
  "routing": {
    "index": "/index.html",
    "routes": {
      "/": {
        "prefix": false
      },
      "/ShapeShifter": {
        "prefix": true
      }
    }
  }
}

My web app is here... I'm building it using ng build --prod --base-href=/ShapeShifter/ so that it serves at https://alexjlockwood.github.io/ShapeShifter. Not exactly sure what the desired ngsw-manifest.json end result is supposed to look like though.

[alexjlockwood]

@alxhub Friendly ping. :)