Show HN: Nerv – A fast React alternative, compatible with IE8 and React 16

Re:Show HN: Nerv – A fast React alternative, compatible with... by mhd on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @05:48PM (#16119874)

Making a site written in React work without JS is quite an endeavor. If you’re not just using it for some progressive enhancement (and frankly, that seems a dying art), then it’s either a whole new backend or trying to be “isomorphic”.

The latter is somewhat difficult in an environment where IE8 is a factor (node as enterprise backend software is often a no-go).

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Re:Show HN: Nerv – A fast React alternative, compatible with... by betenoire on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @10:22PM (#16121210)

You say isomorphic almost like you dismiss it.

I structured my site so that, in the worst case, the user has a plain old site of HTML + CSS and lots of hyperlinks that work just fine. My drop down headers default to pages that show the drop down content.

The embarrassing part was I had a simple bug affecting a sizable chunk of my user-base. In a certain browser, no code would run. But I never received a single complaint, because no one noticed. Sure, some fancy extras didn't work, but they are used to that with that particular browser. The information and required functionality was there. And I didn't have to write it in both PHP AND Javascript.

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Re:Show HN: Nerv – A fast React alternative, compatible with... by patrickthebold on Wednesday January 10, 2018 @09:10PM (#16120953)

You can use Java/nashorn for server side rendering of react.

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Re:Show HN: Nerv – A fast React alternative, compatible with... by lucideer on Thursday January 11, 2018 @03:28AM (#16122252)

... you can also use react for server-side rendering of react

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