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I Made a Lemmy Comment Loader for Static Sites (leviwheatcroft.github.io)

submitted 1 year ago by maegul@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

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Pretty cool idea that leans into Lemmy's ability to provide a rich and federated blogging platform. Essentially, with this tool, it seems, a lemmy post along with its comments can become static content on a static web page of your choice.

cross-posted from: https://aussie.zone/post/1244281

This is a great way to include comments and discussion on a static site. Take a look at the demo.

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[–] levi@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're right, this tool isn't designed to address this problem and is ill-suited.

Lemmy should definitely render a static page and then "hydrate" that with JavaScript in the client. This is a common problem with modern js apps. SSR (server side rendering) is the solution but it can be very complex. You really need to build the whole app with SSR in mind, it's not really something to bolt on as an additional feature at the end.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I think we could get away with sniffing the user agent and serving up static content instead if it looks like a bot.

I'm a full stack dev by day, but everything I've worked on has been a web app that doesn't need SEO, so I'm not exactly sure how that works in practice. But presumably we could generate and cache a basic webpage periodically for each post for use by bots and perhaps for accessibility (e.g. very basic HTML that's just good enough to use with links or something). It would have the same content as the main page, but none of the JS or CSS.

It shouldn't be too hard to render with a templating library.