Congratulations! You’ve got yourself a nice little World-Wide Web site. Now it’s time to deploy it for everyone to enjoy through their World-Wide Web browser. Easy, right? WRONG! Deploying web apps today is the portal to madness and pain, with many levels of misery awaiting as you descend into the depths of Hades. Or…if you play it right, it’s little more than the press of a button. Let’s talk about that in this our Season 2 finale of Just a Spec.

Hosted by Jared White & Ayush and produced by Intuitive Future

Links & Show Notes:

• Follow Just a Spec on Mastodon
• The Spicy Web & That HTML Blog
• Haggis Ruby, 24th October 2024 (Ayush is a speaker)
• Social Web Foundation
• Render (hosting)
• “Premature optimization is…”

It's time for some acronym soup: SSG SSR CSR SPA MPA…MEAN? SSI?? PERL??? (Officially not an acronym…) If you're coming down with a headache already, trust us, you're not alone. It's…a lot. Thankfully, Ayush and Jared are here to break it all down for you, as well as talk about some of the history behind the many different rendering modes to be found on the web and when you might reach for one or the other…or on so many projects these days, both!

Hosted by Jared White & Ayush and produced by Intuitive Future

Links & Show Notes:

• Follow Just a Spec on Mastodon
• The Spicy Web & That HTML Blog
• Haggis Ruby, 24th October 2024 (Ayush is a speaker)
• Follow up: i-html
• Hear also Episode 9 (“server components”, “islands”, etc.)
• Blast from the 2003 past: Review of Blosxom blogging tool
• Movable Type (Wikipedia)
• Bulma 1.0 CSS framework
• Ayush: Rails and Hotwire Codex updated

What if your backend could drive reactive UI changes on your frontend? Without dependencies? Without relying on any particular framework? What if your HTML could gain full-stack programming superpowers?

Introducing Action Web Components—inspired by clever Ajax techniques of the past & present and ready to march boldly into the future.

Hosted by Jared White & Ayush and produced by Intuitive Future

Links & Show Notes:

• Follow Just a Spec on Mastodon
• The Spicy Web & That HTML Blog
• Haggis Ruby, 24th October 2024 (Ayush is a speaker)
• Bridgetown 2.0 Beta is out!
• Action Web Components Which Span the the Server-Client Divide (article)
  • Demo
  • Repo