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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 5836 | Composr | core | public | 2024-08-03 22:19 | 2024-08-04 20:08 |
| Reporter | Chris Graham | Assigned To | Guest | ||
| Priority | normal | Severity | feature | ||
| Status | new | Resolution | open | ||
| Summary | 5836: API-first development | ||||
| Description | Move Composr to generate data via an API server, and render the HTML from a JavaScript platform. This would radically change the Composr programming model and radically improve speeds, while opening up the ability for there to be multiple 'clients' for a Composr site (including mobile apps, etc). The JavaScript API would be able to render Tempcode and locally cache resources like templates, which would be served through the API server. There'd be much less data transferred by request and most of the load would be moved from the server to the client, greatly improving throughput. Something like Swoole or ReactPHP (see 5835) would be good to add even higher performance to the API server. This would all be an enormous amount of effort, almost a rewrite of the system. But to provide extreme performance and responsiveness, I think it's the future. | ||||
| Tags | Type: Performance | ||||
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| Time estimation (hours) | 10000 | ||||
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If doing this it would probably also make sense to have some kind of precaching of resources commonly-used on the front end. This could be learned automatically, i.e. resources used by over X% of users should be auto-cached in the background. Templates, images, etc. Probably based on available bandwidth, i.e. don't do over a cellular connection. |
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I should put in a reference to GraphQL, which is now very popular for APIs. I think we should focus on simple JSON though. If someone then wanted to make that more performant with GraphQL that could be added on in parallel. GraphQL has a lot of complexity and presents caching challenges, so it's not something we should go for unless we identified a need for it. |
| Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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| 2024-08-03 22:19 | Chris Graham | New Issue | |
| 2024-08-03 22:20 | Chris Graham | Relationship added | related to 5835 |
| 2024-08-03 22:20 | Chris Graham | Tag Attached: Type: Performance | |
| 2024-08-03 22:20 | Chris Graham | Relationship added | related to 5834 |
| 2024-08-03 22:21 | Chris Graham | Relationship added | related to 2091 |
| 2024-08-03 22:21 | Chris Graham | Relationship added | related to 2092 |
| 2024-08-04 15:50 | Chris Graham | Note Added: 0009070 | |
| 2024-08-04 20:08 | Chris Graham | Note Added: 0009074 |
