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Re:Don’t Build a General Purpose API to Power Your Own Front... by vidarh on Sunday August 20, 2023 @06:21AM (#37197776)
Around 2005 was the first time I "accelerated" a website by requesting the whole page in the background and swapping out what had changed.

We eventually trimmed what was returned a bit, but just getting rid of the page transition was 90% of the work.

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