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		graue on Sept 2, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Progressive Enhancement Is Dead You can do both! Prerender the front page server side, then switch to super-fast PJAX once the JavaScript is loaded. This nifty technique is called... wait for it... "progressive enhancement". Airbnb's recently released Rendr library (https://github.com/airbnb/rendr) is a great attempt to make this easy for complex web apps to do.

ebiester on Sept 3, 2013 [–]

Oh wow! I get to write two code paths! I'm so excited to do double the work for a small subset of users!

Oh, and I get to test two code paths, and all of the wonderful ways they might interact!

graue on Sept 4, 2013 | [–]

The whole point of Rendr is you don't have to write two code paths. That's why I linked to it.

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