Re: A Responsive Single Page App (SPA) with 3 Issues to Consider

[Bradley Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

Kelly,

You should be able to use Meta Tags (for static content) or even headers
themselves (if it's dynamic content) to always expire the content.

Brad
www.bvstools.com

On Tue, Aug 4, 2015 at 12:42 PM, Kelly Cookson <KCookson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> One thing I have grown to dislike about having a single page app is
> browser caching. I make changes to the files used for content within the
> single page app, but I often have to clear my browser cache for the changes
> to show up.
>
> Add this to the fact that users cannot add particular "pages" to their
> browser favorites. A favorites link always takes the user to the home page.
>
> I'm guessing there are methods for getting around these issues. If this
> were going to be a large website that a business had to spend money to
> maintain, or a website used by tons of people where maximum performance was
> a necessity, then I would probably do more research to resolve the above
> issues. I definitely see the maintenance and performance benefits of single
> page apps.
>
> But this is just a hobby site and unlikely to be used by many people. I
> don't mind spending time on it because, well, that's what hobbies are
> for...spending time. So I'm going back to making it a traditional web site
> with multiple HMTL files.
>
> The link http://www.socialhope.info/code/SocialHope_REBOOT.zip will
> continue to have the source code for the single page app version of the
> website, for those who find this thread in a search or simply want to
> download the code later.
>
> Kelly Cookson
> IT Project Leader
> Dot Foods, Inc.
> 1.217.773.4486 ext. 12676
> kcookson@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>
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