Sam and Ryan discuss how loading states, data fetching, and skeleton screens can change the architecture of an SSG application. They also talk about Apollo’s cache and various query re-fetching strategies.

Topics include:

• 0:00 - Intro
• 2:35 - Image cropper dampening
• 4:00 - Learning library abstractions
• 10:00 - Loading states with SSG
• 28:00 - Server side cache
• 38:30 - Tweet of the week
• 46:00 - Apollo’s cache
• 58:50 - Stale while revalidate

Links:

• Sam’s Image cropper dampening video
• Next.js
• Fan out on write
• Tweet of the week
• State of CSS survey
• Apollo
• URQL
• SWR