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On Demand Pre-Render #1456

Open Debdut opened 3 years ago

Debdut commented 3 years ago

Do you want to request a feature or report a bug?

Feature On Demand Pre-Render

What is the current behaviour? I can pre-render only while building using

preact build --prerenderUrls ./prerender.js

After the build is created, I am not able to pre-render without deleting previous build.

I am building an E-commerce site, when new products are added, I want to pre-render them and only those product pages, keeping rest of my previous build. Is it possible to create a system, when new pages are pre-rendered on demand?

Debdut commented 3 years ago

I don't want SSR for sure!

prateekbh commented 3 years ago

This is a very interesting idea. @developit we should probably do this

prateekbh commented 3 years ago

@Debdut curious about your use case, where and when would you like to trigger this additional prerendering?

Where? Would this be on the CI server or on the actual web server?
When? Would you trigger this when you add an item via some webhook or when the request comes?

Debdut commented 3 years ago

I trigger this when a request comes in

Debdut commented 3 years ago

If you create partial builds which can attach to previous build without deleting it, it works too

ForsakenHarmony commented 3 years ago

I trigger this when a request comes in

So basically cached SSR?

Debdut commented 3 years ago

Yeah, thanks for the terminology

prateekbh commented 3 years ago

I wonder what would the setup look like?

A request comes in, you check if the URL is already pre-rendered
You call a function in preact-cli
It generates the file for this and future requests
Future requests serve from previously prerendered file?

Introduce a server which does SSR for you and serve stale responses upto a given time

Debdut commented 3 years ago

First one sounds better