Route & Worker APIs
workerLoader
Worker route API for handling GET requests in the worker thread. Bring the power of Service Workers directly to your Remix routes.
The counterpart to workerAction, workerLoader work very much the same way. The difference being the kind of requests they intercept.
Don't forget, you must return a response from your route worker APIs!
request
Like workerAction, workerLoader also accespts the same arguments. Including the request object which is the incoming request object.
context
The context object is the same as well. It holds the global state of the worker thread.
params
The params is the route object containing dynamic parameters defined by the route.
Gotchas
workerLoader intercepts requests made to the loader within your app with one caveat: they don't run during the first load (document request). By default, they run on client-side navigation. This behaviour can be changed by revalidating within your
root file:
export default function App () {
const revalidator = useRevalidator();
useEffect(() => {
revalidator.revalidate();
}, []);
// rest of your app component...
}This ensures that the worker loader runs on the first load as well.
What about if you don't want to revalidate and at the same time want to run it on first load? No idea. I am working on improving this behaviour especially and haven't found a reliable way to do this yet.