Surely everyone agrees there is absolutely no reasonable excuse for a news site to use client-side rendering for its main content. Right?

Sep 10, 2017 · 7:10 AM UTC

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No. Why would it? JSON has zero semantics.
Replying to @stilkov
Whatever the right answer is, it'll be the opposite in two months from now :-)
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I, for one, have had this opinion for a decade or so :)
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Json apis are way more reliable then constantly changing HTML that. the key names in that data should be enough semantics for news content.
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Sadly true, but doesn't have to be. In an ideal world, HTML would be treated as an API, only with even more scrutiny
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Replying to @stilkov
"Just" client side for sure not. SEO would suffer a lot in that case. I recall some are doing a mix, server-side pre-rendering & stuff.
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Replying to @stilkov
Of course, there is. Developers of news sites have CVs too.
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Replying to @stilkov
Server-side for initial page load and client-side for additional views gives best performance. E.g. gatsbyjs.org @gatsbyjs
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Replying to @stilkov
Clientless. It's the next thing.
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