Something is going wrong in your service worker and you just want your site to work. So while you debug the problem how do you remove the service worker from existing clients?

The service worker life cycle is a concept that often confuses developers. We often cover registering and updating service workers, but neglect how to remove a registered worker from a web site.

Not knowing how to unregister a service worker from a client can leave your site in a suspended state of failure.

And no one wants their application to deliver a poor user experience…especially from a bug.

Unless you can quickly isolate and correct the issue you may need to buy some time to work through the error.

Removing the buggy service worker might be your best, temporary solution. This should at least eliminate the cause of the issue, while allowing the site to just work.

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