Prerender

[carstenjaksch]

SvelteKit offers a prerender option that is useful if a page is consuming an API and that content is not very dynamic/interactive (like fetching a products list).

I exported a site that uses urql to get some content and of course that request is made every time the page renders.

Would it be possible to implement such a prerender option into Primo? That would skyrocket the performance of API-heavy sites like ecommerce stores.

[mateomorris]

Pages built by primo are prerendered already because they're built as static HTML/CSS, but for some reason the API isn't being consumed when building the site. If you'd like to share the primo.json file for your site I could take a look to see if there's a way to set it up to consume the data on build.

But wouldn't you prefer that the content gets fetched on every page load to ensure it's always getting up-to-date data? Otherwise you'll need to re-build your site whenever the data changes.

[carstenjaksch]

Yes, you are right. We would need some sort of webhook publishing, so that a site will be published as a new version after content changes.

Would be a good feature for Primo server.

[mateomorris]

Yeah that would be awesome. Will keep it in mind for after beta probably; thanks for the idea!