• expr@programming.dev
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      9 months ago

      Yikes, pretty bizarre considering stateless endpoints is the gold standard.

      Re: persistent process, that doesn’t seem like a big deal, to me. It’s pretty normal since you often want to keep some common stuff going, like metrics. Unless you’re doing something crazy it should really take next to no resources while idling.

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        9 months ago

        for content sites, stateless is fine. for web apps you need states of all different kinds. even the smallest detail is a state in an application.

        endpoints themselves are stateless, but the web application is stateful. you only have to build the world once, and its much friendlier for end users.

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          9 months ago

          I wasn’t talking about frontend state, just the server. Frontend state is kind of irrelevant, tbh.