# Service Workers

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A method that enables applications to take advantage of persistent background processing, including hooks to enable bootstrapping of web applications while offline.

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+ **[Instant Loading Web Apps With An Application Shell Architecture](https://medium.com/google-developers/instant-loading-web-apps-with-an-application-shell-architecture-7c0c2f10c73)**: Addy Osmani describes how to leverage the Service Worker API to drastically improve the loading speed of your web application.
+ **[Introduction to Service Worker](http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/service-worker/introduction/)**: Matt Gaunt introduces the main features of Service Worker API in this article.
+ **[Is ServiceWorker Ready?](https://jakearchibald.github.io/isserviceworkerready/)**: Tracks the implementation status across the main browsers.


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# License

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