Django and service workers - serve “sw.js” at application's root url

Question

So I\'m building a Django progressive web app with offline support using service workers.

According to google\'s documentation, the sw.js file should be at the root

Answer 1

You can serve javascript as a view, not just html. Put this in your projects urls.py

url(r'^service-worker.js', cache_control(max_age=2592000)(TemplateView.as_view(
    template_name="service-worker.js",
    content_type='application/javascript',
)), name='service-worker.js'),

Then put your service-worker.js in your templates directory.

Bonus is that you can now also use template tags like static in your javascript file.