<story><title>Making a music library without a SPA</title><url>https://begin.com/blog/posts/2023-09-28-introducing-enhance-music</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Signez</author><text>At first, I thought it was a good exercise (and it still is), but going through the result [0] made me more skeptical.&lt;p&gt;It is... slow? I mean, Internet Explorer slow. Maybe I&amp;#x27;m spoiled by the level of responsiveness of application-style web interfaces, but opening an album or returning to the library feels &lt;i&gt;slow&lt;/i&gt;. Is it because I&amp;#x27;m browsing from Western Europe and the application is hosted in the USA?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m used to browsing multi-page apps that don&amp;#x27;t pretend to be apps, and having a 500ms load time after a click is expected and feels right. But waiting the same time for a click in a page that looks like an app makes me uncomfortable. It&amp;#x27;s weird - is this the Uncanny Valley again?&lt;p&gt;[0] : &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;enhance-music.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;enhance-music.com&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Hrun0</author><text>Looks like the enhance-styles.css doesn&amp;#x27;t get cached properly and gets requested on every route. The browser then waits for 500ms for a response from a server, likely due to increased web traffic.&lt;p&gt;An issue which could have been avoided by using a SPA :D</text></comment>
<story><title>Making a music library without a SPA</title><url>https://begin.com/blog/posts/2023-09-28-introducing-enhance-music</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Signez</author><text>At first, I thought it was a good exercise (and it still is), but going through the result [0] made me more skeptical.&lt;p&gt;It is... slow? I mean, Internet Explorer slow. Maybe I&amp;#x27;m spoiled by the level of responsiveness of application-style web interfaces, but opening an album or returning to the library feels &lt;i&gt;slow&lt;/i&gt;. Is it because I&amp;#x27;m browsing from Western Europe and the application is hosted in the USA?&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m used to browsing multi-page apps that don&amp;#x27;t pretend to be apps, and having a 500ms load time after a click is expected and feels right. But waiting the same time for a click in a page that looks like an app makes me uncomfortable. It&amp;#x27;s weird - is this the Uncanny Valley again?&lt;p&gt;[0] : &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;enhance-music.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;enhance-music.com&lt;/a&gt;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>meowtimemania</author><text>This is what I got going from the main page to an album page:&lt;p&gt;55ms for html,
67ms for css,
15ms for webp image.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m in bay area so it might be slower in other places</text></comment>