Rendering Spectrum
Here are the big categories of rendering websites:
- Client: ship a
<div id="root"</div
and let a JavaScript template render all of it. - Static: pre-render the HTML.
- Server: let a live server process requests and generate the
Here are the big categories of rendering websites:
<div id="root"</div
and let a JavaScript template render all of it.A couple of interesting articles making the rounds:
Here’s an outstanding idea from Max Böck. He’s created a boilerplate project for building websites that fit within a single HTTP request. This is extremely important for websites that contain critical information for public safety. As Max writes:
…In cases
Just this morning, Chris shared a streamlined way to get a static site up and running with Netlify. As it happens, Sarah and I also wrote up a little something that expands that idea where a static site can …
This article is based on Brian’s presentation at Connect.Tech 2019. Slides with speaker notes from that presentation are available to download.
In my experience, developers generally find the benefits of the JAMstack easy to comprehend. Sites are faster …
With the wonderful world of JAMstack getting big, all the categories of services and tools that help it along are as important as ever. There are static site generators, headless CMSs, and static file hosts.
I think …
If you’re getting started with static site generators, did you know you can use GitHub template repositories to quickly start new projects and reduce your setup time?…
Let’s attempt to coin a term here: “Static Form Provider.” You bring your HTML <form></form>
, but don’t worry about the back-end processing that makes it work. There are a lot of these services out there!
Static Form Providers do …
In about 10 minutes, we’ll set up a workflow that makes static sites dead simple.…
In September 2018, I was just a few months into my journey of learning web development. As I’m sure is the case with many new developers, it was a big task for me to learn not only the basic skills …
I see VuePress just went 1.0. Explained simply, it’s a static site generator based on Vue. But of course, you work in Vue, which means you work in components.
All the modern JavaScript frameworks are component-based. Even …
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