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Cache resources through promises

About 29 minutes · 7 reading + 22 practice and checks
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A localhost reference-card app with an explicit asset cache, offline fallback, visible cache version and a controlled update/cleanup test.

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What to include

  • Create an exact cache inventory and a visible list of excluded offline behavior.
  • Record the local secure context and separate worker registration, installation, and page control.
  • Produce cache-entry evidence and a controlled required-asset failure/repair record.
  • Record actual cached reload and failed-network navigation fallback behavior separately.
  • Produce a controlled update/activation record proving the new version and bounded cache cleanup.
  • Deliver source, policy assertions, version evidence, performed browser tests, and scoped cleanup/limits.

Review and revise

Use these criteria to check your work and choose what to improve.

  • The implementation or declared simulation follows the supplied contract and retains inspectable original inputs.
  • Normal, boundary and rejected cases are recorded with expected versus observed results.
  • The changed case has a correct explanation and does not rely on hidden state.
  • The project includes source, outputs, instructions and honest tool, privacy and verification limits.
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The idea in everyday life

In a fresh dedicated folder place index.html, cards.css, offline.html, sw.mjs, cache-policy.mjs and test-cache.mjs. Serve only that folder with python3 -m http.server 8765 --bind 127.0.0.1 and open http://localhost:8765/index.html.

The idea

install waitUntil keeps the worker installation tied to cache population. A rejected required asset prevents this install from being treated as successfully complete.

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Cache resources through promises — original worked practice

install waitUntil keeps the worker installation tied to cache population. A rejected required asset prevents this install from being treated as successfully complete.

In a fresh dedicated folder place index.html, cards.css, offline.html, sw.mjs, cache-policy.mjs and test-cache.mjs. Serve only that folder with python3 -m http.server 8765 --bind 127.0.0.1 and open http://localhost:8765/index.html.

  1. 1. Step 1

    Read install: caches.open(VERSION).then(c=>c.addAll(ASSETS)) is passed to waitUntil.

    You should see: Installation waits for the required asset population.

    install waitUntil keeps the worker installation tied to cache population. A rejected required asset prevents this install from being treated as successfully complete.

  2. 2. Step 2

    Inspect the three cached entries in the browser cache inspector after successful install.

    You should see: The chosen version contains the selected paths.

    install waitUntil keeps the worker installation tied to cache population. A rejected required asset prevents this install from being treated as successfully complete.

  3. 3. Step 3

    In a separate copy, remove offline.html, unregister the practice worker, and attempt a fresh install.

    You should see: The missing required asset causes cache population to fail.

    install waitUntil keeps the worker installation tied to cache population. A rejected required asset prevents this install from being treated as successfully complete.

  4. 4. Step 4

    Restore the file, reinstall in that copy, and retain failure/recovery evidence.

    You should see: An install failure and repair record.

    install waitUntil keeps the worker installation tied to cache population. A rejected required asset prevents this install from being treated as successfully complete.

Now change one thing

Change the required asset policy to ASSETS=["/index.html","/offline.html"], deliberately omitting cards.css. Both required requests succeed. How many responses does this changed addAll set require? Explain why this does not promise cached styling.

Your work

What to finish

Produce cache-entry evidence and a controlled required-asset failure/repair record.

Common mistake

Watch for this

Marking a named cache complete without checking its required entries.

How can I tell I understand it?

Demonstrate the rule: install waitUntil keeps the worker installation tied to cache population. A rejected required asset prevents this install from being treated as successfully complete. Use the supplied variant to distinguish a changed result from a broken implementation.

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Quick knowledge check

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1Why pass the cache-population promise to install waitUntil?
2What must a complete cache inspection show here?
3A required offline.html fetch fails. What is the accurate next action?
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developer.mozilla.org — Service_Worker_API
Source & access notes · checked 2026-10-01

Relevant documented module/API behavior inspected during expansion authoring; actual execution evidence is recorded separately. No grant eligibility is established.

Access: Official page retrieved with the web reader on 2026-10-01. Documentation reading does not certify execution in every native tool or browser.

Reuse: Original local practice files, fictional data, worked examples and questions. Concepts paraphrased and linked; source exercises are not copied.

developer.mozilla.org — Cache
Source & access notes · checked 2026-10-01

Relevant documented module/API behavior inspected during expansion authoring; actual execution evidence is recorded separately. No grant eligibility is established.

Access: Official page retrieved with the web reader on 2026-10-01. Documentation reading does not certify execution in every native tool or browser.

Reuse: Original local practice files, fictional data, worked examples and questions. Concepts paraphrased and linked; source exercises are not copied.

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