what is partial hydration and why is everyone talking about it?

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    Early attempts at this were made by Angular and Ember. These attempts appear to have struggled to gain traction. The relevant Angular issue is currently still open 5 years later and Brian Cardarella argued in Should you use Ember FastBoot or not? (August 1, 2017) that the costs were too high for DockYard to implement FastBoot.

  • React

    A declarative, efficient, and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces.

    Two years later, Sebastian Markbåge opened a PR to implement Partial Hydration (January 28, 2019) as a native feature in React:

  • Appwrite

    Appwrite - The Open Source Firebase alternative introduces iOS support . Appwrite is an open source backend server that helps you build native iOS applications much faster with realtime APIs for authentication, databases, files storage, cloud functions and much more!

  • vue-lazy-hydration

    Lazy Hydration of Server-Side Rendered Vue.js Components

    Based on his work porting vue-lazy-hydration to Vue 3, Markus Oberlehner compares different forms of partial hydration in Partial Hydration Concepts: Lazy and Active (November 8, 2020):

  • solid

    A declarative, efficient, and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces.

    Ryan Carniato, taking influence from Marko (discussed more in a later section), proposes using sub-component (or component-level) hydration in Partial Hydration (November 15, 2020).

  • SvelteKit

    The fastest way to build Svelte apps (by sveltejs)

    According to Rich Harris in March 2021, partial hydration is on Svelte's radar but not yet on its roadmap. This makes sense since Svelte is already compiling an optimized build of vanilla JavaScript that does not require a runtime. However, Kevin Åberg Kultalahti proposed Partial Hydration in Svelte (May 9, 2021) via the use:action directive. We will also see in the next section that a Svelte metaframework, Elder.js, has struck out on its own to implement partial hydration.

  • elderjs

    Elder.js is an opinionated static site generator and web framework for Svelte built with SEO in mind.

    This lets you reduce your payloads while still having control over component lazy-loading, preloading, and eager-loading. While lesser known than Astro, Elder.js included partial hydration as early as August 2020, roughly six months before Astro's initial commit.

  • astro

    Build fast websites, faster. 🚀🧑‍🚀✨

    This lets you reduce your payloads while still having control over component lazy-loading, preloading, and eager-loading. While lesser known than Astro, Elder.js included partial hydration as early as August 2020, roughly six months before Astro's initial commit.

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  • qwik

    The HTML-first framework. Initialize apps of any size with < 1kb JS

    Qwik focuses on resumability of server-side-rendering of HTML and fine-grained lazy-loading of code. It is designed for the best possible time to interactive. According to Miško Hevery in A First Look at Qwik - The HTML First Framework (June 23, 2021):

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