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by lrossi 1991 days ago
If you do client side “rendering” (which means that you get page content from the server in json format, and generate the html from javascript), you have to show a placeholder until the webpage content gets generated. Otherwise the user sees an incomplete page with elements jumping around for a fraction of a second on load.

But the placeholder might get stuck if anything goes wrong.

Personally, I hate it. Better to use static html for blog content.