AppCache / ServiceWorker support

Do you need AppCache / ServiceWorker support in this project? I wrote a offline-plugin for webpack and it’s currently used in react-boilerplate. If you think it would be good to have “offline” support in this project, I will send a PR for it.

Thanks.

[jeffposnick]

As an exercise, I put together a repo that illustrates the modifications needed “Progressive Web App-ify” the create-react-app output, assuming sw-precache is used to generate the service worker.

There are details in https://github.com/jeffposnick/create-react-pwa/blob/master/README.md and a rundown of the (minor!) changes that were needed can be found in the diff: https://github.com/jeffposnick/create-react-pwa/compare/starting-point...pwa

I’ll probably spread the word a bit via my personal blog in case there are other folks who want to manually make those changes to their local create-react-app output.

[jeffposnick]

I work on the team at Google that develops the sw-precache and sw-toolbox libraries, which are similar in scope (though implemented differently) than the offline-plugin project that @NekR maintains. Hopefully this does not come across as upstaging @NekR’s request, but creating a separate issue and having a parallel discussion there doesn’t make much sense.

We had a similar question about how open the maintainers of this project would be to integration. To give an example of what that might look like, a member of the community, @localnerve, developed https://github.com/localnerve/react-pwa-reference as a boilerplate React project with those libraries baked in.

If your preference is to keep what ships by default minimal, or if you’d prefer default integration with another library like offline-plugin, we could focus on providing guidance in our own documentation, explaining how developers who start with create-react-app can explicitly add and configure sw-precache after the fact.

CC: @addyosmani