Ugrading to v4
This documentation covers the process of upgrading to v4 from older versions of Remix PWA.
As the Quick Start docs might have informed you, Remix PWA v4 utilises just Vite. Previously,
Remix PWA utilised esbuild and was built to work in tandem with the Remix esbuild framework. As such, we needed to keep
supporting Remix Esbuild going forward.
Remix has made the decision to leave behind their esbuild compiler and move to Vite fully. This literally meant we had no reason to keep supporting esbuild. As such, we have made the decision to move to Vite fully as well. In other words, we have yeeted esbuild out of the window.
Upgrading from v3 to v4
To ugrade from v3 to v4, you will first need to make sure your Remix application is a Vite one. That means no remix.config.js and
a @remix-run/* version of at least ^2.8.1. If you don't know how to do so, check out the Remix documentation on how to do so and
also this great article by my friend, Alem Tuzlak on converting
Remix CJS apps to Vite ESM.
Once you have done that, upgrade your @remix-pwa/* packages to the latest version (the version numbers aren't uniform, so just use the latest tag
when installing). A few packages have also been deprecated: @remix-pwa/cache has been sunsetted (🚮) and also @remix-pwa/strategy. You can go ahead
and remove both of them from your package.json, if present.
Add the remixPWA() plugin to your newly created vite.config.ts file, Remix PWA now handles registration automatically (except you opt out), so you
can also go ahead and delete the loadServiceWorker function present in the entry client file.
Within your service worker, you also want to reduce your Service Worker down to just the install and activate handler. We would still be
building it back up but a lot of breaking API changes have been made to the other APIs and would need to be re-implemented.
Remix Vite (and Remix PWA) now handle HMR (Hot Module Reloading) internally, so if you are utilsing the LiveReload component, you can go ahead and remove it.
That's about it. Upgrading from v3 to v4 isn't as hard as it seems. If you have any issues, feel free to open an issue on the GitHub repository
Upgrading from older versions to v4
Firstly, allow me to ask: What happened? Why?
Next, upgrading would be very similar too upgrading from v3. The most important thing in there is having a Remix Vite application. Once that's been covered, you can go ahead and follow the steps above.