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Does phoenix require javascript, or just this announcement page? I see a big block of text mixed with json... Not so good for noscript users and search engines

Does phoenix require javascript, or just this announcement page? I see a big block of text mixed with json... Not so good for noscript users and search engines that don't load JS.

chrismccord 11y ago
We use readme.io to host our guides and blog. They use angular I believe, so maybe a hiccup on their end? Phoenix itself targets html/form, spa's, and api's alike.
- ryanSrich 11y ago
  Interesting. Any reason why it's not built with Phoenix? It seems like docs would be a perfect use case for such a framework.
  - oomkiller 11y ago
    Building a custom docs app falls somewhere below "Getting 1.0 released" on the kanban board, if I had to guess.
shadeless 11y ago
Just the announcement page. The Phoenix website is hosted on https://readme.io/ https://readme.io/, it seems that it uses client side rendering for posts.
phamilton 11y ago
Phoenix is built to power realtime web applications. Realtime web applications require javascript. Edit: Not that you can't use Phoenix without realtime capabilities, but a lot of the good stuff in Phoenix is around Channels.
- tedunangst 11y ago
  JavaScript may well be practically required, but there are people/agents that don't have it, and dumping piles of json data on them is a poor fallback.
ffn 11y ago
No, you can use phoenix without any javascript, it'll serve up regular html pages just fine. You only need the js if you plan on using sockets to connect to Phoenix's endpoints.
- rco8786 11y ago
  OP is asking about the phoenix web page, not phoenix itself.
  - k3d3 11y ago
    Actually he was asking about both
gkoberger 11y ago
Our (ReadMe.io) fault! We're releasing a JS-free version in the very near future :)