Interesting article.
One point in the whole discussion is somehow mentioned but in the result also dismissed:
How do search-engines treat the produced websites?
It's no problem to combine some JS-framework with plugins, extensions and some individual code to load some data via json or xml and produce a very nice (aka functional, nifty, ...) website. Just search-engines won't list a website produced like this very high.
Sure, there are always parts of websites where that doesn't matter, where crawling isn't intended anyway. There are details like diagrams (and so much other stuff) that is created dynamically by javascript, or javascript for functionally like sorting tables like the user wants it, modal-windows, etc. But many details still allow (more or less) accessibility, and can base on crawlable html-markup.
Building a complete website just by javascript is a huge step further and is just hardly interpreted by search-engines.
And in the comment of fluffy (dev.to/fluffy/comment/8ha0) it's mentioned that those pages are not accessible too. Sure that's always depending on hard- and software but I thought it wouldn't be a big issue anymore; interesting to read that it still is!
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Interesting article.
One point in the whole discussion is somehow mentioned but in the result also dismissed:
How do search-engines treat the produced websites?
It's no problem to combine some JS-framework with plugins, extensions and some individual code to load some data via json or xml and produce a very nice (aka functional, nifty, ...) website. Just search-engines won't list a website produced like this very high.
Sure, there are always parts of websites where that doesn't matter, where crawling isn't intended anyway. There are details like diagrams (and so much other stuff) that is created dynamically by javascript, or javascript for functionally like sorting tables like the user wants it, modal-windows, etc. But many details still allow (more or less) accessibility, and can base on crawlable html-markup.
Building a complete website just by javascript is a huge step further and is just hardly interpreted by search-engines.
And in the comment of fluffy (dev.to/fluffy/comment/8ha0) it's mentioned that those pages are not accessible too. Sure that's always depending on hard- and software but I thought it wouldn't be a big issue anymore; interesting to read that it still is!