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Re:Why is modern web development so complicated? by mort96 on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @04:44PM (#20638821)
Nope, the content is loaded dynamically from their API after the rest of the page has loaded: https://i.imgur.com/Kxs9l7j.mp4

Sure, the list of my repositories is server rendered, but I already know my list of repositories. The thing I'm waiting for 99% of the time when loading github.com is to see if there's any new activity.

Sorry about the graphical glitches, blame nvidia or xorg or gnome or something.

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Re:Why is modern web development so complicated? by onion2k on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @04:50PM (#20638890)
That's disappointing. You're absolutely right that that particular page should be SSR'd.
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Re:Why is modern web development so complicated? by TurningCanadian on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @06:18PM (#20639774)
Likely because the list of repositories changes infrequently, so it's a better candidate for caching. They serve what then can quickly, quickly, then pull in the naturally slower stuff later.
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Re:Why is modern web development so complicated? by Izkata on Thursday August 08, 2019 @11:45AM (#20645568)
Like 5-10 years ago, writing.com updated their content from loading static pages to be more dynamic.

What they actually did was continue loading the content statically, then hide it behind a 1 or 2 second loading spinner that wasn't actually loading anything.

Seems like users have just come to expect spinners...

(I don't know how the site currently works, haven't been there in a long time)

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