Re:Missing the Point of Server-side Rendered JavaScript Apps
by Touche on Thursday February 05, 2015 @01:48PM
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Tom, it's ok to backtrack here. You (and the rest of us) didn't know at the time that progressive enhancement could be possible without making development much more difficult.
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Re:Missing the Point of Server-side Rendered JavaScript Apps
by azakai on Thursday February 05, 2015 @02:40PM
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I think this might be semantic quibbling at this point.
Yes, progressive enhancement and server-side rendered JS are similar. You can see the latter as a new version of the former. But it is implemented in such a way - a novel way - that it definitely deserves a term of its own.
Re:Missing the Point of Server-side Rendered JavaScript Apps
by Touche on Friday February 06, 2015 @01:22PM
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Progressive enhancement is not a technique, it's a goal. Server-side rendering is a method for achieving the goal.
Re:Missing the Point of Server-side Rendered JavaScript Apps
by ac2u on Thursday February 05, 2015 @03:24PM
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It's not really useful for the conversation to lump it in with the traditional definition of progressive enhancement that's been done for years.
Even middle of the road efforts I tried a few years ago (such as sharing a templating language between client and server even when the implmentation language differs) was fraught with friction compared to this technique.