[Q]: How can I "activate" PWA in Dev Server 🤨

[domsen123]

Hi,

is it possible to generate the manifest and sw.js during dev?

Cheerz

[antfu]

Can you explain a bit about the reason why you want to do this?

[domsen123]

for testing :)

right now I have some struggle with the caching...
I am using firebase as hosting... if I deploy a new build to firebase hosting, some pages are not updating...

So I was wondering, If I can activate the PWA in my local dev env to check everything and I dont have to build/deploy all the time to staging env.

furthermore: how I can extend the sw.js? I need to add some logic...

I dont get it

[userquin]

Just build the project and then install node-static and include the script at bottom of #23 (comment)

You will need to create an SSL certificate...

[userquin]

you can see this entry, to test build over http:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/53388534/385997

[antfu]

dev and build are different processes in Vite (the implements are different, so there are many misalignments). I think debugging PWA in dev mode will make it even harder to debug. I'd suggest using build outputs to serve locally as @userquin pointed out.