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< David Herman> I would be interested to learn more about static deployment with Kobweb as I could be interested by leveraging a variation of that in Spring for server side rendering I have read and tried What I would like to understand more is how you switch from the static to the dynamic version Is there a mechanism to hydrate the server side generated HTML with handlers etc

sdeleuze · Answer

Could that be a way to optimize the footprint on client side

David Herman · Answer

I think I have a comment in the code where I call it poor man s hydration When you pull down the site it gets completely torn up and rebuilt first thing

David Herman · Answer

The static snapshot is good for three things first SEO in case there are crawlers that don t run JS Second I think it gives the user the appearance of a slightly quicker load maybe But third and most importantly is to fool static site hosting providers

David Herman · Answer

Let me know if that answers your questions

David Herman · Answer

The code for taking page snapshots is here <https github com varabyte kobweb blob a8910bf5168a3e27be88ab49fce8b0a86322caac gradle plugins application src main kotlin com varabyte kobweb gradle application tasks KobwebExportTask kt L46|https github com varabyte kobweb blob a8910bf5168a3e27be88ab49fce8b0a86322caac gradle plugins application src main kotlin com varabyte kobweb gradle application tasks KobwebExportTask kt L46> The trickiest part is digging through the dynamic styles and converting them to static ones

sdeleuze · Answer

Ah great that link to the code taking snapshot will be useful for me thanks for sharing

David Herman · Answer

Ah to answer your question about optimizing the client side I don t think I currently can What I m doing is fairly blunt

David Herman · Answer

One thing I d be interested in doing if it was possible is breaking the page script up into many pieces and users would download what they need dynamically

David Herman · Answer

This would make initial downloads smaller and make it more likely that some script parts would get cached by the browser automatically

David Herman · Answer

If I could ever get that to work I think the nice thing is future Kobweb users would get it for free But I don t even know if it s technically possible