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Doubt. My daughter wanted to make a static web to publish illustrated stories she made an such. I happened to have a Loveable subscription I forgot to cancel so

Doubt. My daughter wanted to make a static web to publish illustrated stories she made an such. I happened to have a Loveable subscription I forgot to cancel so I figured she can at least prototype it there. Well, it did the web site alright, the process was smooth. She even asked AI to translate stories and it just did. But the problem is that it was not what I would call a static web site: it was React bullshit, a SPA. The content was actually in typescript !!! Given that it's not actually static content it won't get indexed. (And I really doubt SSR would be a good solution here.)

TeMPOraL 1mo ago
GP might be right though. It'll ship with and advertise a few components that do require a degree of dynamics that Wix/Squarespace can't do as easily, and people will jump. Why do I think that? Because that's exactly what happened to regular webshit coding some decade+ ago. That's how SPAs were born. That's why React is a thing in the first place. Long time ago, someone figured how to make a complex app in a browser, then someone else figured some trivial aspect of the site looks nicer when done in JS (back in the ancient times where networking was slow and bandwidth was tight), and suddenly every static page everywhere got rewritten into a bloated SPA, and spawned a whole absurdly well-paid industry to support it.
toyg 1mo ago
This is not the kind of problem most people care about. It looks good, it works, it's good enough. They will likely build their audience outside of search engines anyway.
jaapz 1mo ago
What kind of client do you think cares in any way in what technology their website/app is made in? They built something, it does what it's supposed to do. What do they care it's using react?
- spockz 1mo ago
  They don’t care about the technology itself but they presumably care about getting indexed!

TeMPOraL 1mo ago

GP might be right though. It'll ship with and advertise a few components that do require a degree of dynamics that Wix/Squarespace can't do as easily, and people will jump. Why do I think that? Because that's exactly what happened to regular webshit coding some decade+ ago. That's how SPAs were born. That's why React is a thing in the first place. Long time ago, someone figured how to make a complex app in a browser, then someone else figured some trivial aspect of the site looks nicer when done in JS (back in the ancient times where networking was slow and bandwidth was tight), and suddenly every static page everywhere got rewritten into a bloated SPA, and spawned a whole absurdly well-paid industry to support it.

toyg 1mo ago

This is not the kind of problem most people care about. It looks good, it works, it's good enough. They will likely build their audience outside of search engines anyway.

jaapz 1mo ago

What kind of client do you think cares in any way in what technology their website/app is made in? They built something, it does what it's supposed to do. What do they care it's using react?

spockz 1mo ago
They don’t care about the technology itself but they presumably care about getting indexed!