Dumb q from someone who has done mostly native dev for…19 years, whoa.
Wouldn’t that screw up his whole thing? Because now you need infra to render to free users?
Dumb q from someone who has done mostly native dev for…19 years, whoa.
Wouldn’t that screw up his whole thing? Because now you need infra to render to free users?
yeah it would. an SPA is exactly what you'd want for a "webapp" like this, where you want everything loaded upfront so that you're mostly interacting with stuff offline. it's also very cache friendly so, really no benefit to using SSR.
SSR only really makes sense when you either want to optimize for fast page loads, or do PHP-style conditional rendering or whatever
I get that, but isn't that model dead now? Doesn't this whole drama prove it? Is there any way to protect an SPA from ~"Hey Claude, de-obfuscate this, then clean-room design our app in another session" in 2026 - and then apply better marketing - without even knowing anything about code? Doesn't this apply to all client-side & native code? Gaming companies are very aware of this.. ghidra + bevy + claude is going to kill all IP protection for games. Their attempt to stop this is why there is no more physical media.
As another web example, ScreenRun is amazing as a true one-time pay, client-side app. I have loved that thing ever since I paid the $50. Such a cool app and model to have no server costs. Whoever made that is also my hero. But are those days now over? I guarantee there are >100 ripoffs of it now. Isn't an SPA now just basically open source, in the worst way only?
Meanwhile, Photopea.com only works via a website for normies. It is ad-supported, so given all the work put in, and updates, and the fact that it is web served... wouldn't SSR be a better option? (I hate this reality)
edit: I am allergic to Next, so I have been using Sveltekit since I realized that SPAs are now accidental open source. What have others been using for non-Next SSR and why? That is the discussion I would really like to have.