autoUpdate interval not firing

[solace]

Hi,

I'm using react-boilerplate and have used https://zach.codes/handling-client-side-app-updates-with-service-workers/ as a reference for getting automatic updates running on a SPA.

The plugin is configured as:

new OfflinePlugin({
  ...
  updateStrategy: 'changed',
  autoUpdate: 1000 * 60 * 2,
 
  ServiceWorker: {
    events: true,
    navigateFallbackURL: '/',
  },
}),

And

OfflinePluginRuntime.install({
  onUpdateReady: () => OfflinePluginRuntime.applyUpdate(),
  onUpdated: () => window.swUpdate = true,
});

However, updates don't seem to be firing at the 2 minute intervals this suggests it should be doing.

I'm presently triggering updates by having certain actions manually invoking

if ('serviceWorker' in navigator) {
    navigator.serviceWorker.ready.then(function(registration) {
      registration.update();
    });
  }

Which works, and sets window.swUpdate as expected. But I'm not sure if I've misunderstood how the autoUpdate interval works to get it to do this automatically.

[NekR]

@solace Hi. It supposed to work. Are you sure it isn't calling updates at all?

[solace]

I've tried adding console.logs to each event that can be configured in install, and changing the autoUpdate value to a shorter interval for testing. As it's an SPA, I don't have other routes to nav to to see if it makes a difference, but minutes pass without any of the log messages appearing until I manually invoke registration.update either from the console, or through an action in the SPA.

Do you have any recommendations for how else I can test this, or have any suggestions for where I should look to diagnose the issue?

Thanks

[NekR]

@solace hey. If you're still using it, I'll be happy to help and debug it if you could provide a test-case/demo repo with this issue happening. I'm not sure how to solve it otherwise, unfortunately.