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Re:Introducing Twitter Lite by daleharvey on Thursday April 06, 2017 @09:18AM (#14050199)
It is not true, the slow part of web applications is loading over the network, server side rendering puts a dependency on the network and is therefore vastly slower.

With service workers and client side storage you can get to display at least a shell, sometimes the entire UI without touching the network. It is a lot faster

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Re:Introducing Twitter Lite by daliwali on Thursday April 06, 2017 @10:54AM (#14051038)
Where do you think that JS in a web page comes from? Not from the network?

Service workers are a cache (and background process), and you still have to consider cache misses. Even if you have a giant JS app and cache it, users still have to download all the JS to actually work offline no matter what.

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