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The problem is even content is becoming functional with interactive charts, infographics and figures, videos, media, filtering, sorting - then the site will eve
by thinkloop 9y ago
The problem is even content is becoming functional with interactive charts, infographics and figures, videos, media, filtering, sorting - then the site will eventually need comments, ads, subscribing, favoriting, upvoting, login, lazy load next article, infinite scroll, etc. Yes, a pure content site shouldn't be an spa, but how long can you survive running a pure content site? Information is complex and the web allows us to communicate it more richly than the static 2d representations of old.
- debaserab2 9y agoWhat are static 2d representations? You can do everything you mentioned without an spa just fine. Plenty of content sites (the majority, actually) survive just fine.
- nojvek 9y agoWell he’s taking about a hybrid. Each of your pages are essentially little applications on their own.
- fiatjaf 9y agoMy solution is to use an isomorphic static-site SPA hybrid, as generated by https://github.com/fiatjaf/sitio https://github.com/fiatjaf/sitio, for example. The idea is to load only the React components and the data needed for each route at load time. An example of a page generated with this technique: http://inflacao.org/series/ http://inflacao.org/series/
- same_shit 9y agoThe problem is, this can all be solved with just a little bit of javascript to make interactive charts, infographics and figures, videos, media, filtering, sorting - then you can still serve static comments, ads, subscribing, favoriting, upvoting, login.