Carmen Bourlon Tutorials

    Carmen is a software developer living and working in Oklahoma City, with a special interest in offline technology. She has spoken at multiple conferences about Offline First, and organizes a local women's technology group. In her spare time, Carmen defends Hyrule from the evil Ganon and writes Twitter-bots.

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    Write Your First Service Worker in 5 Minutes

    What is a service worker?A service worker is a little file that will allow you to cache files and other assets on a user's machine. How is this different from server-side caching? Because the assets are stored on a user's machine, rather than a server...

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    Background Sync with Service Workers

    Service workers have been having a moment. In March 2018, iOS Safari began including service workers -- so all major browsers at this point support offline options. And this is more important than ever -- 20% of adults in the United States are without Internet at...