The three things a browser asks for, without a plugin: a manifest in
public/ (name, /app as the start, three icons cut from the one piece of
art this repo has), a service worker, and the two metas iOS reads
instead of the manifest.
The worker caches the shell — /, /app, /library, all one document under
the SPA fallback — and the hashed assets the build emits. A navigation
is network-first, so a deploy is never pinned behind the cache; a
hashed asset or the wasm is cache-first, because under a given build
those never change. /api and any non-GET go straight out: a worker is a
cache, not a proxy. nginx serves sw.js and manifest.json `no-cache`
(both names outlive their contents) with the isolation headers the
worker script needs under COEP.
The offer is the app's own dialog, not Chromium's mini-infobar: the
event is held, and it is spent either after the visitor has been in the
studio two minutes or the moment an export lands — the point at which
the app has done their work. Safari never fires the event, so it gets
the Share > Add to Home Screen line instead. A refusal is remembered and
never asked again.
node scripts/make-icons.mjs 192x192 39785B / 512x512 159296B / maskable 512x512 123723B
node scripts/pwa-check.mjs manifest 3 icons · worker activated · shell cached
· offline reload of /app paints
off (https://localhost:8090) same four, through nginx
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