Create a PWA with Sveltekit | Svelte
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27 Jun 2021
I've been using sveltekit and svelte for over a year now. I'm also waiting for it to be matured enough to beat NextJs in terms of community. But I like them both.
So, on this weekend I wanted to turn one of my SvelteKit projects into a PWA. When I wanted to do the same with NextJs projects there were a lot of tutorials. But I couldn't find many guides for svelte beginners.
That's because svelte has pwa functionality built into it.
Note !
Basic things for all PWAs
- A website
- manifest.json [ basic icons,names,shortcuts]
- service-worker [ for offline cache ]
So let's get on with it.
First:
We'll create a demo Sveltekit project:
npm init svelte@next my-app
Then we'll choose a simple config in vite for the sake of this article:
Choose typescript because
#typescriptgang
:
Now we have a demo project set up with typescript, it will be straight-forward from here on:
Let's get into our directory:
cd my-app
And run:
yarn
After that,
- In the /static directory, We'll create a manifest.json.
- When svelte compiles the whole application, it copies static files over to the build folder.
{% gist https://gist.github.com/100lvlmaster/3a7d37a400897114d5c64d88b81e4acc %}
Then we'll refer our
manifest.json
in src/app.html
.
And finally we'll create our
src/service-worker.ts
Svelte will automatically detect the service-worker in the src folder's root and then register our service worker during build.
Isn't that neat?
{% gist https://gist.github.com/100lvlmaster/8e966302b2e03404203e965424cb2bca %}
Now we just need to build our app using 
yarn build
:
Now we can preview our build using
yarn preview
:
😯 thats the 'install app' button,
Svelte makes it easy to make PWAs.
The source code of this project lies at:
https://github.com/100lvlmaster/svelte-pwa
You can find me at:
https://100lvlmaster.in