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I have a robot vacuum cleaner that runs linux, and it CAN run a Caddy server. I managed to get a website running on it last time. Now that my websites are static I'm tempted to host my personal blog on it.

I try to keep things simple. Simple websites are fast and reliable. Turbo seems to be a departure from that. Since the heaviest part of my pages is the text, it would not help much.

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In its simplest and most basic form, Turbo does it all for you. All you have to do is add the javascript files and when the user visits a page, Turbo will intercept the request, pass it to the server, retrieve the HTML response, extract the content of the body tag and surgically insert the content into the client browser. I'm using it on a couple of sites (including mine, a static one built with Hugo) and web applications and the difference in speed and responsiveness is remarkable. Of course you can go further. I'm now building a PWA using CodeIgniter and Turbo. The big advantage of this approach is that you can use "classic" technologies (HTML5 + backend) and achieve similar responsiveness to the modern Javascript frameworks, reusing all the existing backend code and logic.

Please do this and write a blogpost about it!

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