Web Push Notifications: Standard and Official Documentation

“Web Push Notifications” is a general term to refer to the push notifications sent by websites and web apps. However, if you are looking for an official document that defines the “Web Push Notifications” standard, you won’t find it. This is because this technology is made up of different technologies, each one serving to a specific purpose. Let’s find out what these technologies are and where the official standards are located (documentation).

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Service worker: importScripts never updates scripts

Pushpad is a service for web push notifications. In order to add push notifications to their websites, our customers need to install the service worker that we provide on their websites.

Initially we just asked customers to copy and paste the whole content of the service worker. However this meant that for every update we made to the script, our customers had to take action.

Then we discovered importScripts

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