Single-page JS websites and SEO

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There are a lot of cool tools for making powerful "single-page" JavaScript websites nowadays. In my opinion, this is done right by letting the server act as an API (and nothing more) and letting the client handle all of the HTML generation stuff. The problem with this "pattern" is the lack of search engine support. I can think of two solutions:

  1. When the user enters the website, let the server render the page exactly as the client would upon navigation. So if I go to http://example.com/my_path directly the server would render the same thing as the client would if I go to /my_path through pushState.
  2. Let the server provide a special website only for the search engine bots. If a normal user visits http://example.com/my_path the server should give him a JavaScript heavy version of the website. But if the Google bot visits, the server should give it some minimal HTML with the content I want Google to index.

The first solution is discussed further here. I have been working on a website doing this and it's not a very nice experience. It's not DRY and in my case I had to use two different template engines for the client and the server.

I think I have seen the second solution for some good ol' Flash websites. I like this approach much more than the first one and with the right tool on the server it could be done quite painlessly.  Can you think of any better solution?

Mar 2, 2022 in Digital Marketing by Kichu
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If you're using Rails, try poirot. It's a gem that makes it dead simple to reuse mustache or handlebars templates client and server side.

Create a file in your views like _some_thingy.html.mustache.

Render server side:

<%= render :partial => 'some_thingy', object: my_model %>
Put the template your head for client side use:

<%= template_include_tag 'some_thingy' %>
Rendre client side:

html = poirot.someThingy(my_model)
answered Mar 4, 2022 by narikkadan
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