Angular’s PWA: SwPush and SwUpdate

Not too long ago, I wrote an article Your Angular app as Progressive Web App where I explained why Progressive Web Apps are the future of web applications. In that article I also briefly touched the Angular SwPush and SwUpdate APIs, where I also mentioned I might write an additional article to go deeper into that subject. A promise is a promise, so here it is! I’ll go a bit deeper into the possibilities these two APIs have to offer and show some examples. SwPush and SwUpdate are both conveniently exposed in the same package @angular/service-worker, which we’re obviously going to use.