Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by unilynx 1691 days ago
QUIC / HTTP3 does not fix the roundtrip wait times caused by dependencies - if 'a.mjs' imports 'b.mjs' which in turn imports 'c.mjs'... you still need two roundtrips to load all three.

only a bundler can fix that (or a hypothetical process which would set up preloads for all required libraries, but that would just be a bundler without the actual bundle creation step)
1 comments
TheCoelacanth 1691 days ago
An ES module-aware server can avoid that problem by using HTTP Server Push[1], but I haven't seen a production-quality implementation of that, only proof-of-concepts.

[1] https://medium.com/@nikita.malyschkin/the-future-of-web-depl...

link
spankalee 1690 days ago
Server push is being deprecated because it was far to hard to implement correctly. A server that knows the dependency graph could inject <link rel=modulepreload> into the HTML though.
link