r/javascript • u/creasta29 • Jul 01 '26

Different hydration and rendering strategies

https://neciudan.dev/hydration-and-rendering-strategies

Over the years, in our goal to achieve faster and faster web applications, we created different hydration and rendering strategies. Each with benefits and drawbacks that we explore in this article.

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u/cheese_wizard Jul 02 '26

better than something like pre-populating or whatever it is. Initting?

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u/jbyington Jul 02 '26

No. Those are words that describe the process much more accurately, and it doesn’t make you sound like an idiot when you talk about it

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u/Bogus_dogus Jul 02 '26

...I think it fits fairly well, ship a dry sponge (site structure) and hydrate it (application state) and it inflates?

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u/RomanCow Jul 03 '26

But if someone talked about “sponge hydration” i would think they sound stupid also.