geo_mer

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by geo_mer 8y ago
Rendora uses internally cdp https://github.com/mafredri/cdp , a golang client implementation for "Chrome Devtools Protocols" which works on top of websockets, when Rendora detects a witelisted request, it inst
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by geo_mer 8y ago
google analytics is the only 3rd party script I am okay with. Maybe you should add it sometime in the future to get a rough idea about your users, I was talking mainly about the more intrusive analytics and ads scripts that plagued the web.
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by geo_mer 8y ago
This is actually a very neat and useful website. Also respect for making the website fast and not adding any 3rd party scripts.
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by geo_mer 8y ago
yes exactly :), as if crawlers see exactly the same HTML of what browsers see after DOM load not the initial incomplete HTML sent by servers
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by geo_mer 8y ago
>and return less assets (no CSS, fonts etc) no, it returns the whole page, it's just equivalent to rendering pages on your browser, everything in the initial HTML is the same in addition to HTML generated by javascript frameworks ad
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by geo_mer 8y ago
>What's the disadvantage or advantage of headless chrome over chrome with head intact? I am not aware of any. You just don't use headless Chrome for typical browsing :D >Is headless chrome faster? I guess it slightly is, bec
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by geo_mer 8y ago
you can add your user agent to whitlested user agents or (less recommended) you can even connect to the headless chrome instance (usually using http://localhost:9222 but in that case I remind you that some assets are blocked fro
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by geo_mer 8y ago
* prerender.io is a paid service; Rendora is FOSS and self hosted * prerender.io needs additional code in your backend to filter requests and asks for SSR from a remote server then returns back the resulting HTML; Rendora doesn't becau
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by geo_mer 8y ago
No, both receive HTML, the real problem is that websites built with modern javascript frameworks (e.g. react, vue, angular, etc...) render most of the content using the javascript engine in browsers, search engines don't execute javasc
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by geo_mer 8y ago
Thank you for the kind response >was wondering if there is any other existing product in the market yes, there is rendertron; here is the comparison between rendora and rendertron and why I think rendora is better https://gith
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by geo_mer 8y ago
Thank you! I actually developed it because I have developed a somewhat complex website using vue.js and it was too complex/too late for my architecture to do the native Vue SSR using Node.js so I built rendora instead. I have some real
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by geo_mer 8y ago
Hello HN, I've been developing and testing rendora for some time now and decided to put it publicly today on github, I would love to take feedbacks or answer any question!
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Show HN: Rendora – Dynamic server-side rendering for modern JavaScript websites(github.com)
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by geo_mer 8y ago
You are a unique innovator Mike, I am not really into visualization but I am a big fan of yours.
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by geo_mer 8y ago
Is QUIC only built for HTTP or can it be also used as a secure infrastructure for any L7 protocol?
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by geo_mer 8y ago
Native async/await support is really great. I haven't gotten very far with Rust but it already made me rethink many things that I thought I had understood.
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by geo_mer 8y ago
Kubernetes may be overkill for small projects and it's actually hard to setup for a single-machine cluster, but the idea of container orchestrators (k8s, docker swarm, nomad, etc...) is extremely useful, I understand that some abuse th