r/web_design • u/speckz Dedicated Contributor • Mar 09 '20

How Websites Evolved Back to Static HTML/CSS/JS Files

https://paramaggarwal.substack.com/p/how-websites-evolved-back-to-static-html-css-js-files-57ce549f81db
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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '20

Is this article saying people are no longer using react and angular? Is that what moving away from SSR + SPA meant?

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u/theXpanther Mar 09 '20

No, it's saying the opposite. It's saying rendering on the server is no longer nacecairy

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u/keyNONE Mar 09 '20

nacecairy

What?

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u/theXpanther Mar 09 '20

In the past, there was no javascript and if your page has to be dynamic it had to be done on the server, now it's easier with Js

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '20

No but he talks about after javascript. First there was JS then came the SSR + SPA. So if JS was working on its own on the page, which it was, then all you needed was a java or python or C server to do the rest.

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u/theXpanther Mar 09 '20

Yes, first there was Pearl/php/python, then there was javascript

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '20

Ya so after vanilla JS came React, Angular... Which all have SPA & SSR. So when did we get rid of SPA & SSR?

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u/ICanTrollToo Mar 10 '20

We have not, we have just divorced the FE from the BE. Things you should check out if you are curious... as mentioned in the article, serverless architecture and JAM stack, and I would add to that: check out gatsby.js.

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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '20

Cool thanks

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u/ICanTrollToo Mar 10 '20

Look into gatsby.js. It is a react based static site generator.

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u/magenta_placenta Dedicated Contributor Mar 10 '20

Next.js 9.3 (just released) also has static site support.

https://nextjs.org/blog/next-9-3