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The myth that you can’t build interactive web apps except as single page app

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260 points gherkinnn | 1 comments | 17 Nov 24 13:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.202s | source
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mh-cx ◴[17 Nov 24 15:05 UTC] No.42164537[source]▶
I wonder why the article doesn't mention utilizing the browser cache for your static CSS and JS assets instead of introducing a service worker as first measure.

Few years ago I built a shopping site MPA this way and the page transitions were almost not noticable.

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jdsleppy ◴[17 Nov 24 15:14 UTC] No.42164573[source]▶
Same (but not a shopping site). Bundle the JS and CSS into one file each and cache it forever (hash in the filename to bust the cache). Then with each page transition there's exactly one HTTP request to fetch a small amount of HTML and it's done. So fast and simple.
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1. exceptione ◴[17 Nov 24 20:05 UTC] No.42166710[source]▶
+ you need to pair that with immutable, otherwise you are still sending validation requests each reload time, so you are doing more than one HTTP request.