You Shouldn't Start with an SPA

Re:You Shouldn't Start with an SPA by simonhamp on Friday February 02, 2024 @01:40PM (#39232459)

Yeh I've seen some of those as SPAs... ouch

Honestly, I'd rather not be presented with an empty grid of spinners tbh

I think you can get something useful on first render and then dynamically update from there (either with polling, SSE or WebSockets) all without the added complexity of an SPA

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Re:You Shouldn't Start with an SPA by spiderxxxx on Friday February 02, 2024 @02:45PM (#39233228)

I make mine such that the first load includes the data needed in the first load of the page. If you're going to populate a grid on the first load, just have the backend include that in the page itself inside a dynamically inserted javascript block. For something like paged search results, you can preload the first page, and preload the second page a short while after that.

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