This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since April 2018.
Secure context: This feature is available only in secure contexts (HTTPS), in some or all supporting browsers.
Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.
The updatefound event of the ServiceWorkerRegistration interface is fired any time the ServiceWorkerRegistration.installing property acquires a new service worker.
Use the event name in methods like addEventListener(), or set an event handler property.
addEventListener("updatefound", (event) => { })
onupdatefound = (event) => { }
A generic Event.
const registration = await navigator.serviceWorker.getRegistration();
if (registration) {
registration.addEventListener("updatefound", () => {
console.log("Service Worker update found!");
});
}
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
updatefound_event |
40 | 17 | 44 | 27 | 11.1 | 40 | 44 | 27 | 11.3 | 4.0 | 40 | No |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/ServiceWorkerRegistration/updatefound_event