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Saying goodbye to static generation
Episode 156

Saying goodbye to static generation

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February 22, 202359m 50s

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Show Notes

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

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