There is a confusion about the Edge Platform and developer tools here. The short of it now is that we don't have any extra features not in the Chromium platform and that our work in that area will be part of the Chromium core.
When it comes to Service Worker tooling, the story is the same, and my colleague Erica is working on that features, so if there is something ready to talk about, she'll chime in here. For now, you can see the new Service Worker Network features as part of the "What's New" in Edge 85.
What do you currently miss in the implementation of Service Workers in Chromium? What would be really good to have from a tooling point of view you can't do right now?
I see the confusion now, thank you for the answer and clarifying!
Knowing this gives me a sense of relief since Chromium seems to have, as far as I can tell, the best support for Service Workers. Also having your (Organization's) work going back into Chromium core is excellent news for the project!
This is all coming from someone still learning the ropes in the area, with just a few debugging sessions trying to sort out Service Worker related bugs under my belt. Webkit's (Safari) dev tools feel a bit clunkier and the separate window for Service Workers doesn't make it more comfortable to work with IMO.
What would be really good to have from a tooling point of view you can't do right now?
Maybe out of lack of experience I haven't figured out the best way to do this yet but it would probably be a way to log or filter all cache hits/miss (verbose mode of some sort with a filter feature). For example, in the "What's New" link you shared you can tell the source of the response was the Service Worker, but this feature could help sort/filter all responses that come from a Service Worker. Very much a rough idea but that's the main thing I've struggled with in that area. Thank you again!
Hello Fernando! Our explainer outlines some of the work we're doing/planning. We have a couple more explainers coming up (that we will link to in the document) so that we can have more concise information for our improvements, but that link provides the main source of truth.
Maybe try this:
Type is:service-worker-initiated or is:service-worker-intercepted in the Network panel filter text box to view requests that were caused (initiated) or potentially modified (intercepted) by a service worker.
Let me know if you had another question or if I misunderstood.
Yes this is all very helpful and that explainer document comes with great detail, those areas you/your team are working on seem like will have a very positive impact in how we can interact & debug Service Workers. Thank you @hiamerica
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There is a confusion about the Edge Platform and developer tools here. The short of it now is that we don't have any extra features not in the Chromium platform and that our work in that area will be part of the Chromium core.
When it comes to Service Worker tooling, the story is the same, and my colleague Erica is working on that features, so if there is something ready to talk about, she'll chime in here. For now, you can see the new Service Worker Network features as part of the "What's New" in Edge 85.
What do you currently miss in the implementation of Service Workers in Chromium? What would be really good to have from a tooling point of view you can't do right now?
I see the confusion now, thank you for the answer and clarifying!
Knowing this gives me a sense of relief since Chromium seems to have, as far as I can tell, the best support for Service Workers. Also having your (Organization's) work going back into Chromium core is excellent news for the project!
This is all coming from someone still learning the ropes in the area, with just a few debugging sessions trying to sort out Service Worker related bugs under my belt. Webkit's (Safari) dev tools feel a bit clunkier and the separate window for Service Workers doesn't make it more comfortable to work with IMO.
Maybe out of lack of experience I haven't figured out the best way to do this yet but it would probably be a way to log or filter all cache hits/miss (verbose mode of some sort with a filter feature). For example, in the "What's New" link you shared you can tell the source of the response was the Service Worker, but this feature could help sort/filter all responses that come from a Service Worker. Very much a rough idea but that's the main thing I've struggled with in that area. Thank you again!
Hello Fernando! Our explainer outlines some of the work we're doing/planning. We have a couple more explainers coming up (that we will link to in the document) so that we can have more concise information for our improvements, but that link provides the main source of truth.
Maybe try this:
Let me know if you had another question or if I misunderstood.
Yes this is all very helpful and that explainer document comes with great detail, those areas you/your team are working on seem like will have a very positive impact in how we can interact & debug Service Workers. Thank you @hiamerica !
Happy to help! Let me know if you have any related feature requests in the future.