FYI: also available on Vite about self-destroying-sw HOT 2 OPEN

First, regarding this ticket: this is good FYI. I assume specifically its this flag: https://vite-pwa-org.netlify.app/guide/unregister-service-worker.html#development.

Second, some back story relevant to this ticket that might be helpful context if anyone lands here.

I ran into a scenario where my domain was overtaken by Vite PWA. I'm new to service workers and for reasons I didn't figure out the website content would not refresh -- Vite PWA was not updating the content. I'm certain this was user error.

My plan was to switch away from Vite PWA (and Vitesse entirely) to hugo. When I did this I found the old site was still loading (I expected this, because at this point I understood that the service worker registers and reads all the things from cache). So, I went down this muddy path of figuring out how to disable the service worker and/or its cache.

Very important: I learned that the service worker js file that was registered (mine was at /sw.js) will automatically update (given certain assumptions). I found these resources helpful:

• https://web.dev/codelab-service-workers/
• https://web.dev/service-worker-lifecycle/#skip-the-waiting-phase

I resolved on a VERY similar solution to this project:

/sw.js:

self.addEventListener('install', event => {
  self.skipWaiting();
});

self.addEventListener('activate', (event) => {
  navigator.serviceWorker.getRegistrations().then(
    function(registrations) {
      for (let registration of registrations) {
        registration.unregister();
      }
    }
  ); 
});

I took inspiration from this StackOverflow answer: https://stackoverflow.com/a/33705250, though there are important differences.

The problem was that it would throw an exception:

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'getRegistrations')

And, that's when I found this project! @NekR thank you, thank you, thank you.

All that to say, if I had to do this all over again I might have tried the self-destruct on Vite, but that is not a permanent production solution. I truly need to figure out what I had done wrong in my configuration.

Given how "sticky" service workers and Cache API are I suspect this project is very valuable.

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@josephdpurcell I'm including sw cache storage cleanup in vite-pwa-plugin v0.17.1 (I'll try also add the feature for Vite 4 via new v0.16.8 release), you can use my suggestion here #11

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