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YannickR

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YannickR··on Converting an online game to work without any JavaScript
I realized this during my exercise: I had to completely disable pre-rendering in SvelteKit for the account system to work without JS, since I want to show the username for logged in users.
YannickR··on Converting an online game to work without any JavaScript
You‘re absolutely right, not every web page „should“ include interactive elements.

What I wanted to express is that web pages shouldn’t be forced into being only structured styled Text and instead should be encouraged to embrace interactivity.

YannickR··on Converting an online game to work without any JavaScript
I haven’t tried this yet, but if it works this would be a very smart solution to the problem, as it could potentially also reduce delays between turns.
YannickR··on How I Made My Online Game Work Without JavaScript and Why You Probably Shouldn't
Hi HN!

I think I stumbled into this undertaking when I first tried out SvelteKit. Their documentation promotes progressive enhancement and it got me wondering, would that work even for a game with real-time updates? What would it look like?