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

I was getting all the time the error DOMException: The script resource is behind a redirect, which is disallowed.

I spent hours trying to figure out the solution.

Apart from adding at urls.py:

from django.views.generic import TemplateView

urlpatterns = [
  ...,
  url(r'^service-worker.js', (TemplateView.as_view(template_name="service-worker.js", content_type='application/javascript', )), name='service-worker.js'),
]

There was also another step needed. Instead of

I used: