Re:The Cult of Kubernetes
by xena on Monday September 09, 2019 @08:28AM
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The real trick is to make your site load so fast people swear it's magic. I use a combination of serving things from ram and https://instant.page to do this with a fairly boring plain old HTML rendering on the server app. I even have a Progressive Web App out of it too.
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Honestly, very true. After doing some brief work for a financial services company, the one thing they were consistently surprised at was how fast the application ran!
Yeah, duh. I render simple HTML templates on the server and serve them as browsers expect them; not with a thousand lines of JS for topping.
Re:The Cult of Kubernetes
by ConfusedDog on Monday September 09, 2019 @09:13AM
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Are there any side effects from preloading pages when hovering over the link?
Probably? I don't have side effects on hyperlinks though.
Re:The Cult of Kubernetes
by wlesieutre on Monday September 09, 2019 @10:49AM
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The "Pages not preloaded" page notes that it excludes addresses with query strings just in case they run some action that you might not want to trigger on hover. You can override the default behavior if you know it's not an issue.
I'm reminded of a post from a few years ago where someone's website had a table of items with [delete] links and would take database actions based on GET requests to those URLs. Who cares? It looks the same to a human browsing it.
And then it got crawled by a search engine which followed all the links to see where they went.
But if you're not doing anything unusual like that, I don't see how prefetching HTML would cause any problems.