blogs,a collection of creative blogs from the Ponder community.

Perhaps this is better explained through example: NextJS is an amazing framework. After writing the Ponder client in standalone react, writing the blogs site with NextJS was a revelation. It allowed me to build fast and focus on the important aspects of the product. As we were beginning to build, Next released a new feature called Incremental Static Regeneration (ISR), which did on-the-fly static site generation at request time instead of compile time. It was way faster than SSR, worked like magic and had minimal setup. Unfortunately our feature-set included the ability for authors to change the theme of their site, and there was no way of making that feature "feel" right with ISR, since one couldn't invalidate the existing cache across all the blog's pages at once. It was a painful but right decision to use SSR instead no matter how much better ISR was in every other respect. (someday I'm sure they will introduce partial cache invalidation).