Running Workbox in DEBUG mode

[9jaGuy]

Is there an option or a way to run service-worker (generated by workbox) in debug mode?

It seems like workbox checks process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'production' before logging any debug messages

...and we currently only run WorkboxWebpackPlugin when isEnvProduction is true.

Is this intentional, if not what will the best way to give developers a way to debug their service-worker?

[ZYinMD]

I have the same question.

[ZYinMD]

The author of the pwa template answered in cra-template/pwa#15 that it can't be easily done. I think it'll be tremendously helpful if CRA can add this option as an environmental variable in .env.

Here is the doc page about the debugging mode, which seems not applicable to CRA.

[9jaGuy]

Thanks @ZYinMD I did reach out to him and he gave me a similar response. I decided to post this still to see if it is something worth evaluating by the community.

[AntonOfTheWoods]

The author of the pwa template answered in cra-template/pwa#15 that it can't be easily done.

I don't think that's strictly true, at least not for someone who wrote the code. They just don't want to, because they don't think you should be using service workers for anything but dumb caching. Maybe Safari support is still horrible so they don't want people complaining about "why CRA doesn't work with Safari"?

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