YouTube's PWA Journey

October 5, 2022 | 2:50 PM - 3:10 PM (UTC)

During this talk, we’ll discuss YouTube’s experience working with service workers to enable offline playback. We’ll cover the journey to expand support to more browsers, and go through some performance tradeoffs. We’ll also discuss how new browsers API are used to make the website look & feel like a native app. Finally we’ll touch briefly on the ongoing work to bring PWA and Service Workers to our open source browser, Cobalt.