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Saying goodbye to static generation
Manage episode 356061891 series 1635850
Sam and Ryan chat about their recent work migrating Build UI from a statically generated site to a run-time server-rendered app using Next.js. They talk about their past experience working on server-rendered apps, the problems that static sites were created to solve, and the tradeoffs involved within the static-to-dynamic continuum.
Topics include:
- 0:00 - Intro
- 2:05 - How we built EmberMap with SSR + caching buckets with Redis
- 8:36 - How we launched Build UI as a static site with dynamic workarounds
- 13:15 - The problem with static-only sites
- 14:50 - First potential solution: client-side rendering of dynamic data
- 18:01 - Second potential solution: multiple versions of each page
- 25:25 - Third potential solution: run-time server rendering
- 35:44 - Why we left static
- 39:55 - Details and challenges of moving to getServerSideProps
Links:
195 episodes
Manage episode 356061891 series 1635850
Sam and Ryan chat about their recent work migrating Build UI from a statically generated site to a run-time server-rendered app using Next.js. They talk about their past experience working on server-rendered apps, the problems that static sites were created to solve, and the tradeoffs involved within the static-to-dynamic continuum.
Topics include:
- 0:00 - Intro
- 2:05 - How we built EmberMap with SSR + caching buckets with Redis
- 8:36 - How we launched Build UI as a static site with dynamic workarounds
- 13:15 - The problem with static-only sites
- 14:50 - First potential solution: client-side rendering of dynamic data
- 18:01 - Second potential solution: multiple versions of each page
- 25:25 - Third potential solution: run-time server rendering
- 35:44 - Why we left static
- 39:55 - Details and challenges of moving to getServerSideProps
Links:
195 episodes
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