Articles Tagged spa

That rhymed lolz.

I mentioned on a podcast the other day that I sorta think WordPress should ship with Turbolinks. It's a rather simple premise:

1. Build a server-rendered site.
2. Turbolinks intercepts clicks on same-origin links.
3. It uses AJAX for the HTML of the new page and replaces the current page with the new one.

In other words, turning a server-rendered app into "Single Page App" (SPA) by way of adding this library. … Read article

Here are two ways to build a site (abstractly) that feel diametrically opposed to me:

1. Build a site as an SPA (Single Page App). The page loads a skeleton HTML page that executes JavaScript as quickly as it can. The JavaScript calls an API to get data, and then the page renders content. Navigation of the site is more API calls to get the data it needs and re-rendering.
2. Build a site as statically-generated. A build process runs in which

This tutorial is the final of a three-part series by Brad Westfall. We'll learn how to manage state across an entire application efficiently and in a way that can scale without dangerous complexity. We've come so far in our React journey, it's worth making it across the finish line here and getting the full bang-for-our-buck out of this development approach.… Read article