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Discussion on: Which part about your job/studies/etc. gives you the most anxiety?

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Rick Booth

SEO and single page applications. Whilst there's currently quite a bit of tooling available for frameworks like Vue like Chris Fritz' prerendering plugin, it's still quite a challenge to get good SEO rankings, especially with dynamic content. You either have static pages hosted on CDN's like cloudfront and pay next to nothing, or have server side rendering which out of the box gives way better SEO with less hassle, but have to pay for server costs, which vary depending on how much traffic you're expecting to receive. Sometimes you're not given the choice and have to make do with what you have available which can be challenging especially when you feel like you're not getting anywhere, but could be if you had a server available.

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Ben Halpern

Oh god I have so much SEO anxiety in general.

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Rick Booth

I think the worst part is, as developers we're used to things happening quickly, having hot reloading during development and seeing things update in the blink of an eye. With SEO, you can try as many different things as you like, but you often won't get a solid answer for a good few weeks or months even, and it's still a bit of a guessing game even then.