Difference between service workers and web workers

Web workers have been quite around for a while. Service worker is a new-ish concept. Both enable you to run JavaScript in the background. Both can make your application run faster and create a better user experience. Knowing both concepts, can make you build better applications. But do you know the difference between the two?

In one of our previous articles, we covered web workers and service workers already. In this article we want to compare both of them. See how they are similar but more importantly where they differ.