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I haven't developed any website but my server-side preference would definitely lead me to something that is always server-side-rendered. It's no surprise we all

by rakoo 8y ago

I haven't developed any website but my server-side preference would definitely lead me to something that is always server-side-rendered. It's no surprise we all like HN, the experience definitely feels more than good enough. There was a standard (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3229 https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3229) to diff pages so that only the delta would be sent to the browser. After that the only missing piece would have been that the browser doesn't refresh the whole page but intelligently re-renders the difference in the DOM, and that would have been the perfect world.

jdmichal 8y ago
I'm really only familiar with ASP.NET, but do other frameworks not include support for partial page rendering? The ASP.NET `UpdatePanel` is simple and even has gracious degradation. (If client doesn't support for whatever reason, it will just revert back to doing full page POST and refresh.) Of course, this is just wholesale replacing a DOM subtree with another. But there's also probably some point where just parsing the new subtree is faster than attempting to create and apply a diff.