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React hosted in an S3 bucket, API Gateway with one Lambda function per model, single DynamoDB table with overloaded indexes. This will cost you pennies to spin

React hosted in an S3 bucket, API Gateway with one Lambda function per model, single DynamoDB table with overloaded indexes. This will cost you pennies to spin up and get traction with.

jypepin 8y ago
how do you handle SEO in this case? AFAIK most crawlers (including facebook etc) don't load javascript, so I'm always wondering how to allow dynamic pages (say a product's page) to be crawled and have a og meta tags. If this had a great solution, boy things today would be much easier!
- mark242 8y ago
  If you are relying on SEO to gain initial traction, your project is going to fail. Start worrying about SEO when you have a core base of users who are actually using your product and by then you'll be more interested in refining features for your userbase that you won't fall into the feng shui trap that is SEO. edited to add: The reason I discount SEO like this is because SEO is essentially chasing a search result against competitors who likely have more budget, more resources, and more time to play that game. Spend your time on making your product better, aggressively market directly to people instead of relying on the passive results of SEO, and by the time your project takes off, you will hopefully be in a spot where you won't care very much about why using react-helmet doesn't help with Facebook shares.
  - jypepin 8y ago
    Nobody mentioned initial traction or if it is too early to worry about SEO. As I asked in my question, I also mentioned the need for og meta tags for social sharing, which is something that is often important for clients I talk to. The appeal of a static SPA hosted on s3 is great, but I have trouble getting good responses about such fundamentals from people who advocate this architecture.
- scanr 8y ago
  Google will load JavaScript but you can also use react-static to do static SSR if you’d like your first render to be fast or you’d like better SEO from crawlers that don’t read JS. Ping me if you’d like to know more.
  - jypepin 8y ago
    my question is directly related with parent's answer, which, afaik, react assets on s3 + lambda won't allow SSR.
    - scanr 8y ago
      You can do the first render statically into s3 and then attach react. So basically your build does the SSR. It works if you have a smallish number of pages.
anonu 8y ago
What is an overloaded index? Does this mean creating an index in every "column"?

React hosted in an S3 bucket, API Gateway with one Lambda function per model, single DynamoDB table with overloaded indexes. This will cost you pennies to spin up and get traction with.

jypepin 8y ago

how do you handle SEO in this case? AFAIK most crawlers (including facebook etc) don't load javascript, so I'm always wondering how to allow dynamic pages (say a product's page) to be crawled and have a og meta tags. If this had a great solution, boy things today would be much easier!

mark242 8y ago
If you are relying on SEO to gain initial traction, your project is going to fail. Start worrying about SEO when you have a core base of users who are actually using your product and by then you'll be more interested in refining features for your userbase that you won't fall into the feng shui trap that is SEO. edited to add: The reason I discount SEO like this is because SEO is essentially chasing a search result against competitors who likely have more budget, more resources, and more time to play that game. Spend your time on making your product better, aggressively market directly to people instead of relying on the passive results of SEO, and by the time your project takes off, you will hopefully be in a spot where you won't care very much about why using react-helmet doesn't help with Facebook shares.
- jypepin 8y ago
  Nobody mentioned initial traction or if it is too early to worry about SEO. As I asked in my question, I also mentioned the need for og meta tags for social sharing, which is something that is often important for clients I talk to. The appeal of a static SPA hosted on s3 is great, but I have trouble getting good responses about such fundamentals from people who advocate this architecture.
scanr 8y ago
Google will load JavaScript but you can also use react-static to do static SSR if you’d like your first render to be fast or you’d like better SEO from crawlers that don’t read JS. Ping me if you’d like to know more.
- jypepin 8y ago
  my question is directly related with parent's answer, which, afaik, react assets on s3 + lambda won't allow SSR.
  - scanr 8y ago
    You can do the first render statically into s3 and then attach react. So basically your build does the SSR. It works if you have a smallish number of pages.

anonu 8y ago

What is an overloaded index? Does this mean creating an index in every "column"?