I stumbled upon a succinct piece from Paul Irish, about ‘how to enhance website visitor experience on a website using considerable tools at disposal’, while continuing my dive into vercel.

The below points to keep the ‘why’s pickled:

1. Slow TCP ramp up
2. The first 14kb is crucial (because of point 1)
3. Critical CSS for above the fold renders

This talk was referenced in the “7 Principles of Rich Web Applications”.

🔗 I’m attaching the said “Delivering the goods” talk/keynote in this post for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8W_6xWphtw

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I found myself revisiting rauchg’s 7 principles of rich web applications:

1. Pre-rendering isn’t optional
2. React immediately to user input
3. React to data changes (server side included)
4. Control data exchange between client and server
5. Don’t break history, enhance it
6. Push code updates (yes client code updates)
7. Predict Behaviour (I honestly think this is overkill — but brilliant if pulled off)

This (re-)read was part of my dive into “how vercel ships good quality software so quickly” assumption.

And oh, here’s the link to the article from 2014, — the examples are really helpful to wrap your mind around the concepts that are seemingly complex (at first).

🔗 https://rauchg.com/2014/7-principles-of-rich-web-applications

~ updated at: 2024-12-14T16:07:15.740Z

Interesting observation:

X has started crawling the “link” in my bio every time i post (or even repost).

~ updated at: 2024-12-14T08:26:46.050Z