alt Hacker NewsIf you're thinking about going back to SSR, I think you owe it to yourself to check out Phoenix LiveView (Elixir) and play with it for an afternoon.
I've built a few apps in it now, and to me, it starts to feel a bit like server-side React (in a way). All your HTML/components stream across to the user in reaction to their actions, so the pages are often very light.
Another really big bonus is that a substantial portion of the extras you'd typically run (Sidekiq, etc) can basically just be baked into the same app. It also makes it dead simple to write resilient async code.
It's not perfect, but I think it's better than RoR
I've been curious for a while now. One thing that gives me pause though is how Phoenix LiveView apps perform when you're dealing with high latency. I'm aware that many apps will be serving primarily the US market and so might not recognise this as much of an issue. I'm also aware that I could deploy 'at the edge' with something like fly.io. Still, when I run a ping test to 100 different locations around the world from NZ, the majority of results are 300ms+. That seems like it would have a pretty noticeable impact on a user's experience.
TLDR; Are most Phoenix deployments focused on a local market or deployed 'at the edge' or are people ignoring the potentially janky experience for far-flung users?