Let a new service worker take over by itself

The update popup showed on installed PWAs after an update had already
landed: the new worker sat waiting behind the open window. Nothing in the
worker is per-version, so it now skips the wait on install, and the
popup is gone.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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2026-10-27 13:38:07 +01:00
co-authored by Claude Opus 5.5
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commit 6e678cbcde
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@@ -85,7 +85,14 @@ function isBypassRequest(url) {
);
}
/**
* Nothing the worker holds belongs to one version (navigations go to the
* network, the code cache belongs to the build), so a new worker takes
* over at once instead of waiting for every tab to close. It never
* reloads a page: the open one keeps running, now served by it.
*/
self.addEventListener("install", (event) => {
self.skipWaiting();
event.waitUntil(
caches.open(CACHE_NAME).then((cache) =>
Promise.allSettled(SHELL.map((url) => cache.add(url))),
@@ -190,9 +197,8 @@ async function cacheFirst(request) {
}
/**
* The page asks for a new version from its update notice: nothing skips
* the wait until the user says so. The loading page asks too, since it
* isn't the app and nothing of the app's is running.
* The loading page asks a waiting worker to take over. Workers from
* before `install` skipped the wait on their own only answer this.
*/
self.addEventListener("message", (event) => {
if (event.data?.type === "SKIP_WAITING") {