Server side rendering

[spoenemann]

Currently the whole content is generated by React in the browser. Crawlers do not execute JavaScript, and so the content should be made available to them with other means.

[spoenemann]

• [x] We could generate a sitemap in the server: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/183668?hl=en&ref_topic=4581190

[spoenemann]

Server-side-rendering could be done with GraalVM, but that will require quite some effort to get it right. For example, when loading an extension detail page, we'll need to inject the extension metadata and README content into the script instead of fetching it from the server (we're already on the server).

[spoenemann]

Crawlers do not execute JavaScript

That seems not to be true, at least I can find open-vsx.org extensions on Google search. But server-side-rendering can still be beneficial.

[amvanbaren]

@kineticsquid Do you think this issue is still relevant?

[kineticsquid]

@amvanbaren Good question. @spoenemann @chrisguindon?

[chrisguindon]

@kineticsquid I would say yes. This feature request would help solve my recommendation that I posted on https://github.com/EclipseFdn/open-vsx.org/issues/1240#issuecomment-1305597304

I would recommend that the application is upgraded to include a different description per page.