>>> We’ve been hard at work deploying Brisket to power three of the best and fastest sites on the web — BloombergView.com, BloombergPolitics.com, and BloombergBusiness.com.<p>Okay so after throwing up a bit at the hyperbole I played around with said sites. They feel fairly slow and loading different sections seems to be random how long it will take to register my click event. UX for showing page loading seems very limited and the differences in times of load for things feels very off.<p>Content sites like the ones Bloomberg mentions should not be done as single page webapps! The problem of rendering pages that have HTML on them has been solved - probably best to leave stuff like Brisket for apps that need it, like stock exchanges or real time analytics.
Btw, does "Isomorphic Javascript" rub anyone the wrong way or am I the only one.<p>It seems like someone watched a Haskell tutorial and copied a smart sounding word and just appended it to Javascript. This used to be called "code reuse". But that doesn't sound as cool anymore.
Link to actual GitHub repo:<p><a href="https://github.com/bloomberg/brisket" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/bloomberg/brisket</a><p>At a glance it looks unnecessarily heavy but nice to see more open sourcing.
What exactly is a "single-page application"?<p>Wikipedia states that it "<i>is a web application or web site that fits on a single web page with the goal of providing a more fluid user experience akin to a desktop application. In an SPA, either all necessary code – HTML, JavaScript, and CSS – is retrieved with a single page load, or the appropriate resources are dynamically loaded and added to the page as necessary, usually in response to user actions.</i>" [1]<p>How is this any different from any other web application?<p>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-page_application" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-page_application</a>
As an anecdote, the websites did seem to load slow for me. And as a previous commenter has added, I'm not sure a news hub is best suited as a SPA.
I find it interesting that this is coming through their main news channel (main website and Twitter), rather than a side channel, like an engineering blog.
I find Bloomberg an interesting company.
The first start-up I worked for made all their money selling software to Bloomberg.
Now Bloomberg is recruiting JavaScript programmers on my Uni campus offering salary on par with Twitter.
Maybe they want to be hip ? who knows.
Is "brewery" the new "factory"? <a href="https://github.com/bloomberg/brisket/blob/master/docs/brisket.routerbrewery.md" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/bloomberg/brisket/blob/master/docs/briske...</a>