Server side rendering with puppeteer and headless chrome— a practical guide

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4 min readSep 21, 2019

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TL;DR — serve JS to users, server side rendered content to bots (the source code is available here — http://bit.ly/2m6HN8w)

While building Binge, my framework of choice was VueJs (and single page application). Happy with both choices.

Dejan Blazeski

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Founder binge.app. Curious dev. Laravel / Angular / VueJs / React Native / Docker. Love stand up shows.

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