Blog Post Series: SSR/FastBoot

[marcoow]

basically a blog version of my talk idea - I think this might end up being a multipart series:

• SSR for SPAs and PWAs
  • what is SSR
  • introduce sample app (bus tickets counter)
  • what are the use cases (SEO, non-JS clients, better perceived loading times, quick access to content)
  • how is this different from pre-generating static files?
  • how does this relate to the app shell model (app shell is nice but pre-rendered response is more valuable; ideally combine both - shell from service worker, fill in pre-rendered response as it becomes available)
• FastBoot: SSR for Ember
  • how does it work (run Ember in Node with SimpleDom, visit API enabled this etc.)?
  • how to use it
  • what are problems (jQuery, prototype extensions; also no localStorage etc.)?
  • how to test this
• Advanced FastBoot
  • better loading state (disable elements selectively; some elements are functional without running app)
  • lazy load in client, bundle everything in FastBoot
  • don't propagate FastBoot errors to users, fall back to serving static/empty HTML
  • shoebox for pushing data => save latency
  • route differently (e.g. results route where API request is slow)
• SSR and PWAs: combining App shell, offline and SSR

[marcoow]

superseded by #207