prerender option

[adrelanos]

Did you or anyone ever consider/test prerender instead of preload?

Perhaps would be worth adding as an option?

  linkElement.rel = 'prefetch'

would have to become

  linkElement.rel = 'prerender'

if I understand that right.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Prerender

[kurtextrem]

I've added it to my fork: https://github.com/kurtextrem/instant.page. I'm also trying to document all the caveats of prerendering or what you need to take into account when prerendering things.

[dieulot]

I’d like to eventually add it, along with other preloading mechanisms.

Due to prerender being much more aggressive that prefetch on a user’s and server’s connection though, I want to make a server-side tool that can measure the effects of the different preloading mechanisms happening on different sets of device/network configurations, and then use the right one automatically.

Stay tuned but don’t hold your breath. You can indeed use @kurtextrem’s fork if you’d like to see how it works out for you.