Use fastboot

[iqualfragile]

I mean its bascially a static site, nothing animated.
Why does it have to use javascript? For that sweet asynchronous loading? I don't think thats worth it.

[azerupi]

The whole front-end is using Ember.js (if I am not mistaken). It may not be animated but it makes extensive use of Javascript to render the pages.

[iqualfragile]

yes, exactly my point, its using javascript where static pages would be the tool of choice.

[azerupi]

I agree that most parts of the page could and should probably be rendered server-side and only use JavaScript to enhance the page with animations, graphics, ...

(handlebars-rust)?

This is probably not going to change at the moment but it's worth remembering when Crates.io get's its redesign.

@alexcrichton can probably make a more "official" comment though :)

[steveklabnik]

When FastBoot lands, we'll get server-side stuff with no code changes, just some ops ones.

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I agree that most parts of the page could and should probably be rendered server-side and only use JavaScript to enhance the page with animations, graphics, ...

(handlebars-rust)?

This is probably not going to change at the moment but it's worth remembering when Crates.io get's its redesign.

@alexcrichton can probably make a more "official" comment though :)

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[crumblingstatue]

While I have no problem with needing JavaScript, the page sometimes renders slow and uses a lot of CPU when loading. It would be nice if a beefy server did the rendering instead of the client.

[iqualfragile]

its not even like doing that stuff on the server would be costly, you can render it once and cache the results until its updated the next time which i guess is a timespan of about 2 months for an average crate, maybe less often.

[steveklabnik]

I tried a preview of FastBoot today, but it's gonna require something like Ember 2.3.x, so we would have to upgrade before using it.

[tbu-]

What's the status on this? Can we help with activating FastBoot for crates.io, is there anything that needs to be done?

[steveklabnik]

Fastboot is very close, but not quite done: https://www.npmjs.com/package/fastboot

1.0.0-beta.4 is the latest of 6 releases

[iqualfragile]

i am not too confident fastboot will ever land, its now almost a year later, and they have reached rc-6

development is slow: https://github.com/ember-fastboot/fastboot/commits/master

and issues are plentiful: ember-fastboot/ember-cli-fastboot#360

this might not be the way to go for allowing people to view static content without javascript.