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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: 0s | 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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1. youngtaff ◴[18 Nov 24 09:21 UTC] No.42170948[source]▶
On a session basis browser caches are effective but on a session to session basis it’s likely the content will get evicted as resources from other sites gets cached - there’s an oldish Facebook study where they placed an image in the cache and after 12hrs it had been evicted for 50% of visitors

Service Workers offer more controls over cache lifetime, and in Chromium (at least) JS gets stored in an intermediate form (which reduces the re-compile overhead on reuse)