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Our long term plan to make GitLab as fast as possible with Vue and Webpack

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Re: Our long term plan to make GitLab as fast as possible with Vue and Webpack

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> For example, the profile page could be potentially very light, and there would be no reason for that if someone is linked directly to the profile page; it should load every single piece of Javascript in our project.

There are plenty of ways to do that with single Page apps; it's not a great argument against all single page apps, just poorly designed ones.

Re: Our long term plan to make GitLab as fast as possible with Vue and Webpack

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post #4

> For example, the profile page could be potentially very light, and there would be no reason for that if someone is linked directly to the profile page; it should load every single piece of Javascript in our project. There are plenty of ways to do that with single Page apps; it's not a great argument against all single page apps, just poorly designed ones.

Yet much easier to do by avoiding a single page app all together.

Re: Our long term plan to make GitLab as fast as possible with Vue and Webpack

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post #4

> For example, the profile page could be potentially very light, and there would be no reason for that if someone is linked directly to the profile page; it should load every single piece of Javascript in our project. There are plenty of ways to do that with single Page apps; it's not a great argument against all single page apps, just poorly designed ones.

Yet much easier to do by avoiding a single page app all together.

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Re: Our long term plan to make GitLab as fast as possible with Vue and Webpack

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post #4

> For example, the profile page could be potentially very light, and there would be no reason for that if someone is linked directly to the profile page; it should load every single piece of Javascript in our project. There are plenty of ways to do that with single Page apps; it's not a great argument against all single page apps, just poorly designed ones.

Yet much easier to do by avoiding a single page app all together.

Is there anything meaningfully different between a site made up of a number of discrete single page apps and one built with Vue?

Re: Our long term plan to make GitLab as fast as possible with Vue and Webpack

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How about going forward by not focusing on using the latest JavaScript frontend, but fixing the backend issues you clearly have?

Too soon? low blow? I would imagine they have different teams for the fronted and their backend datastore, and can do both at the same time.
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