Send messages when you’re back online with Service Workers and Background Sync – Twilio Cloud Communications Blog
This example of using background sync looks like it’s specific to Twilio, but the breakdown of steps is broad enough to apply to many situations:
On the page we need to:
- Register a Service Worker
- Intercept the “submit” event for our message form
- Place the message details into IndexedDB, an in browser database
- Register the Service Worker to receive a “sync” event
Then, in the Service Worker we need to:
- Listen for sync events
- When a sync event is received, retrieve the messages from IndexedDB
- For each message, send a request to our server to send the message
- If the message is sent successfully, then remove the message from IndexedDB
And that’s it.
