Workbox v5.0.0-beta.1

The latest beta release of Workbox v5 includes the following developer-visible changes, in addition to all the changes from the previous pre-release.

Installation of the latest pre-release version

We are using the next tag in npm for the current pre-release version. To install a given module use, e.g., npm install --save-dev workbox-webpack-plugin@next.

🐛 What's Fixed?

TypeScript

• Various type annotations have been updated for accuracy. [#2200, #2208]

All build tools

• If the swSrc file has an associated sourcemap, we now update that to account for the injected manifest. [#2239]

workbox-build

• Fixed a bug that could lead to the output directory being prepended twice when writing the service worker to disk. [#2223]

• Make sure that all swSrc and swDest files are left out of the generated precache manifest. [#2232]

workbox-broadcast-update

• Added a check to wait for the resulting client to load on navigation requests before broadcasting any update messages. [#2210]

workbox-precaching

• Instead of adding the __WB_REVISION__ query parameter to outgoing network requests that should be cache-busted, explicitly set the cache mode to 'reload' if needed. When cache-busting is not needed, set cache to 'default'. [#2222]

workbox-range-requests

• Fixed a bug causing an invalid 206 Partial Content response to be used when the incoming request used Range: bytes=0-. [#2237]

workbox-webpack-plugin

• Fixed an edge case that could lead to build errors when other plugins generate assets. [#2219]

workbox-window

• The message event listener is now added earlier, inside of the constructor rather than the register() method. [#2211]

Thanks

Special thanks to @lukas2005 for their bug reports, and @azizhk for their contributions that went into this release!