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Navigating to a specific URL in your Angular PWA if its service worker is not yet registered

If you host an Angular Progressive Web App (PWA) on a web server, you will frequently have URLs that are handled by the Angular router to navigate to specific pages within the app.

However, without the service worker registered, navigation requests are not intercepted and sent to the PWA. In other words, if a user has never ran the PWA yet in his or her browser, a… Read more

Apache to Nginx transition on WordPress – don’t forget the permalinks

After having transitioned from Apache to Nginx as the web service for this blog, I noticed an immediate drop-off from search engine traffic to links outside of the index page. Just attributing it to blind bad luck for a few days, I later realized that permalinks were broken because I didn’t correctly translate the rewrite rules from the Apache confi… Read more