[beeandapenguin]

This is why we need more incremental rendering[1] (or "streaming"). This pattern become somewhat of a lost art in the era of SPAs — it's been possible since HTTP/1.1 via chunked transfer encoding, allowing servers to start sending a response without knowing the total length.

With this technique, the server can break down a page load into smaller chunks of UI, and progressively stream smaller parts of the UI to the client as they become available. No more waiting for the entire page to load in, especially in poor network conditions as the author experienced from Anartica.

[1]: https://www.patterns.dev/react/streaming-ssr

[jasoncartwright]

I remember doing this with ASPv3 pages back in the day on a content site. It made it easy to dump what HTML has already been completed out before continuing to generate the heavier, but much less important, comments section below.