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

Brad,

Wow, I didn't think it would be that easy. It's a little early to tell, but the meta tags seem to be taking care of the cache issue.

Here are the meta tags I'm using (from a StackOverflow thread):
<meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="max-age=0" />
<meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="no-cache" />
<meta http-equiv="expires" content="0" />
<meta http-equiv="expires" content="Tue, 01 Jan 1980 1:00:00 GMT" />
<meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache" />

So it's still an SPA site for now. :-)

Thanks,

Kelly Cookson
IT Project Leader
Dot Foods, Inc.
1.217.773.4486 ext. 12676
kcookson@xxxxxxxxxxxx



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From: WEB400 [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bradley Stone
Sent: Tuesday, August 04, 2015 1:31 PM
To: Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: Re: [WEB400] A Responsive Single Page App (SPA) with 3 Issues to Consider

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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