Re:Gatsby – A Static Site Generator for React
by virtualwhys on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @01:48PM
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> It comes down to user experience
Indeed, it does. My experience visiting SPAs is frankly one of annoyance. Somehow, with 32GB of memory, dual SSDs and an i7 extreme processor, the browser grinds to a crawl with at least 1 CPU core maxed out for however long it takes for the extraneous (to me) transition/effect to complete. As a side effect the CPU fan kicks in for my auditory pleasure.
Compare that to a traditional web page where the browser only needs to handle a small fragment of html after initial page load, which typically makes for blazing fast page transitions, indistinguishable from SPA transitions.
I get the benefit of offloading work to the client when scalability is an issue, but for a static blog site? Not so much, I'd say using React in this case is less about the user experience and more about the developer's.
Re:Gatsby – A Static Site Generator for React
by jamra on Wednesday July 20, 2016 @05:29PM
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I agree with you. Plus, if you use Cloudflare, your server may not even take the burden of the request. They will do the caching of static content for you.
Indeed, it does. My experience visiting SPAs is frankly one of annoyance. Somehow, with 32GB of memory, dual SSDs and an i7 extreme processor, the browser grinds to a crawl with at least 1 CPU core maxed out for however long it takes for the extraneous (to me) transition/effect to complete. As a side effect the CPU fan kicks in for my auditory pleasure.
Compare that to a traditional web page where the browser only needs to handle a small fragment of html after initial page load, which typically makes for blazing fast page transitions, indistinguishable from SPA transitions.
I get the benefit of offloading work to the client when scalability is an issue, but for a static blog site? Not so much, I'd say using React in this case is less about the user experience and more about the developer's.