Smashing Magazine

JULY 13, 2021

When jQuery appeared in 2006, a lot of developers and organizations started to adopt it for their projects. It is an open-source React framework that offers features to generate static pages, create server-side rendered pages, and combine both types in the same application. It also allows creating serverless APIs inside the same app.

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Smashing Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2021

Yet, for all these technological developments, it’s interesting that many of us are still serving sites in the same way Tim did with the very first website — a web server serving static website files. At the time, Nanoc talked about compiling source files into HTML: It operates on local files, and therefore does not run on the server.

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Smashing Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

It can be hard to visualize the huge network of hardware that allows you to send a request for a page to a server and then receive a response back. So, when people first started talking about the Internet having similar carbon emissions to the airline industry , I was a bit skeptical.

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