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Re:Announcing Gatsby 2.0.0 by BigJono on Monday September 17, 2018 @07:57PM (#18011178)
Progressive Web Apps aren't universally a good idea. I'm sharing a 6Mb/s down link with 5 other people. The absolute last thing I want is every website to pre-cache 40 pages for every page I browse.
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Re:Announcing Gatsby 2.0.0 by kylemathews on Monday September 17, 2018 @08:01PM (#18011204)
Absolutely!

Gatsby tries to balance making your site work at some level offline w/ not precaching too much.

By default we cache the front page & then do "run-time" caching as the user visits different pages so ensuring they can at least return to the pages they've visited when offline.

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Re:Announcing Gatsby 2.0.0 by captain_crabs on Monday September 17, 2018 @07:59PM (#18011190)
This is a good point. But I think PWA's are still better than monstrous everything chunks. It would be good to make pwa's configurable to user preferences
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