Explain better patterns useful in frontity such as pre-fetching

[juanmaguitar]

It's not the first site that I see that is not using pre-fetching, so when you click on links the content is not preloaded. Maybe it's a topic that it's worth explaining in detail?

[juanmaguitar]

@Poliuk As I understand pre-fetching is not really a feature of Frontity itself but a pattern that can easily be implemented in Frontity projects.

This "pattern" is implemented in some official themes such as twentytwenty-theme in the Link component
There's a DevRel Talk where we explain specifically this → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW5xZlpcqQk&t=1073s

I was thinking of creating a specific section called "patterns" or "recipes" where we can explain things like this

What do you think?

[Poliuk]

@juanmaguitar maybe we can just use the guides section also for this

[juanmaguitar]

It seems there's already a Feature Discussion opened to make this auto-prefetching implemented in twentytwenty-theme as part of the "official" Link component (the one you can import directly from the frontity package)

https://community.frontity.org/t/auto-prefetch-data/886

[juanmaguitar]

maybe we can just use the guides section also for this

Yes, I think, for now, adding a new guide to explain this is enough

[michalczaplinski]

@juanmaguitar Letting you know that we've merged a PR implementing the autoprefetching in the <Link /> component: frontity/frontity#518

FD: https://community.frontity.org/t/auto-prefetch-data/886

I guess this can be completed as part of #149

[juanmaguitar]

Although there are now some built-in ways of applying pre-fetching, I still think there should be a proper explanation of "What is pre-fetching? Why it's important?"

[juanmaguitar]

We're going to create a quick guide in https://docs.frontity.org/guides with a title such as "Why a pre-fetching strategy is important and how you can easily apply it with Frontity"
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Link_prefetching_FAQ