TLDR: Clickbait Let me fix the title for you: "Netflix renders their landing page on the server. Preloads other code while you're signing in." Revolutionary.

TLDR: Clickbait Let me fix the title for you: "Netflix renders their landing page on the server. Preloads other code while you're signing in." Revolutionary. > A few days ago Netflix tweeted that they'd removed client-side React.js from their landing page and they saw a 50% performance improvement. Are you telling me that serving a small, cached HTML page takes less time than downloading and running a full-fledged SPA? Gee whiz mister! > It caused a bit of a stir. Nope, but it gave people a good laugh. > the headline boils down to: less code was executed and stuff got faster. You bet.