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Rollback Patterns in Offline-First PWAs

DEV Community·CrisisCore-Systems·6 months ago
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This is the second stop in the failure-mode and testing path.

Read first:

Service Worker Failure Modes in Offline-First PWAs

Then continue to:

Testing IndexedDB Schema Migrations in Offline-First PWAs

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If you want the trust boundary underneath rollback risk, add:

Trust Boundaries in Client-Side Health Apps

Rollback sounds simple until the app keeps state locally.

If all you have is a server and stateless clients, rollback usually means

deploy the old version and move on.

That is not what happens in an offline-first system.

In an offline-first app, the old version is still running in someone's

tab. The new version may already be installed in a waiting service

worker. The local database may already have been migrated.…

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