Getting to the Glass
summary
Compares rendering models by showing runnable code: Netlify Edge functions (TypeScript) that fetch and inject HTML (HTMLRewriter) to implement a cookie banner and shared footer without client-side JavaScript, so pages arrive complete and enhancements run at the CDN. Demonstrates caching strategies (stale-while-revalidate, durable cache), discusses partial pre-rendering and deferred static generation for thousands of product pages, gives migration steps (route-by-route proxying) and shows the edge approach works and fails gracefully while cutting client work and improving time-to-glass.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction and welcome
- 1:57What is getting to the glass
- 6:54About performance and simplicity
- 16:27Boring example with cookie banners
- 26:30Edge includes for global navigation
- 33:15Performance and caching at the edge
- 38:12Key takeaways and advice
- 40:36Q&A session
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