Re:How we built the new gocardless.com
by bshimmin on Thursday May 21, 2015 @11:43AM
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I turned off JavaScript to see if the site still worked: it did. I then navigated to different pages to see if it was slower than the "blindingly fast" the blog post promises: I couldn't detect any difference.
In summary, I have no idea why you would use React to build a static site, but I sure hope they had fun doing it.
Re:How we built the new gocardless.com
by quantisan on Thursday May 21, 2015 @11:52AM
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Another datapoint. Difference in speed is obvious to me coming from a Comcast pipe. There's an actual page load when JS is off vs instant page change when it is on.
In summary, I have no idea why you would use React to build a static site, but I sure hope they had fun doing it.