One of our objectives is to make usage of SwellJS easy in order to maximize its adoption. Usually one of the major drawbacks is the installation.
Most software you want to use on your website will require you to download it, extract it, upload it, and keep it up to date.
One of the best ways we found on SwellJS to reduce installation hassle is to remove the installation process. We will instead provide the library via a CDN.
So, what will a “CDN” do, and how does it helps to avoid installation of the SwellJS library?
A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is an architecture designed to make content available to anyone as fast as possible. This means that someone accessing a file on a CDN from New York will get it from a server located in New York, while someone accessing the same file from Tōkyō will get it from a server located in Tōkyō.
This will allow us to provide SwellJS by directly hosting it ourselves, without having to worry about the fact that it might make websites hosted in other countries than our own slower. This also means that when you use SwellJS via this method, someone accessing your website from a different country will load the SwellJS library faster than your own website.
We also have plans to optimize lazy loading of SwellJS components, effectively reducing number of HTTP queries required to make a page work.
Finally, SwellJS assets will also be available via CDN, meaning that a full-swell website will usually be faster than the same hosted directly.
Tags: CDN, Swell, Swell Installation
May 6th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
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November 30th, 2009 at 2:08 am
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December 3rd, 2009 at 4:20 pm
Ive been researching this and I’ll have to agree
December 31st, 2009 at 9:48 am
I think one of the hardest things for me is becoming too caught up in reps and sets. Lets say I plan on doing 4 sets of 12 reps sometimes I make it so I have to hit those precisely when maybe 3 sets was enough and on my last set I only got 10 reps but I quickly lower the weight and bust out 2 more reps.
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December 10th, 2010 at 3:45 pm
what is the status on swell CDN function ? can we download all swelljs libs somewhere ?