Abracadabra: The Vanishing Network
summary
Traces a concrete migration from server‑rendered HTML through progressively enhanced MPAs and SPAs to React Server Components and Actions, showing code and a live counter demo that moves mutations from fetch/API roundtrips into server‑callable functions so the client needs almost no network glue. Shows a real legacy mess — a 2,000 lines Backbone base view that made adding a checkbox take two weeks — and demonstrates a working counter that increments/decrements with the network layer effectively vanished.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction and context
- 3:00Historical perspective on web development
- 7:14Multi-page application architecture
- 11:05Progressive enhancement in multi-page apps
- 22:13Single-page application era
- 29:11Progressively enhanced single-page apps
- 34:21Modern React and the vanishing network
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