Angular: Is it possible to switch off offline support and use only swUpdate service for ServiceWorkers?

Question

service workers are installed with standard schematics:

ng add @angular/pwa

Is it possible to switch off offline support, to use only SwUpdate service?

Answer 1

You can disable Angular Service Worker from serving all or some resources from cache by specifying your custom "navigationUrls" in ngsw-config.json. For example

"navigationUrls": []

Documentation

I also noticed that in that case you have to trigger checkForUpdate() method explicitly (for example, on the app init or with some cadence)