Service workers

[Crecket]

I was thinking it'd be nice to add a service worker to the new documentation page which could significantly speed up the loading time for the new documentation. And since the service worker works in the background it wouldn't require some kind of rewrite in the theme/template that is currently used.

If you want I can create a pull request to set this up using something like sw-precahe which is Google's library to easily create a service worker script.

The trade-off then becomes that new versions of the documentation won't be visible instantly since a cached version will be shown first but you would have sub 1 second/near instant load times

[OGKevin]

Interesting 🤔 This could be fixed if the maintainers of Redoc implements lazy rendering in their module. Redocly/redoc#475. This will solve the long loading time.

I'm not familiar with the suggestion you've given so I would indeed ask you to create a PR. I want to know first how much time you think this will take. So we can plan if we want to give the maintainers of Redoc some time to implement lazy rendering in their project or we want to solve it with your suggestion.

[Crecket]

Lazy loading is definitely the best solution 👍

Setting up a proper service worker will probably take an hour to set it up and test if everything is loaded/cached correctly. Especially if you use the sw-precache/sw-toolbox projects from Google which are just simple scripts which you can run to generate it

[OGKevin]

@Crecket if thats the case then i would say goahead and create a PR. Ill discuss this internally as well to doublecheck if this is compliant but i have a feeling it is :)

[OGKevin]

@Crecket BTW, please follow this contribution guide