Nuxt SPA instead of client-server

[Glandos]

Hi!

Since it's my first time here: thanks for the great work on this software!

I'm self-hosting a lot of software on my personal server at home, which has a low-end CPU, and only 4GB RAM. On top of that, my philosophy is to use as less resources as possible, so I am investigating to avoid Node.js for the backend, since there is already a Python server.

My question is: is there any real difference between yarn build --spa and yarn build (which launch nuxt build with the default client + server setting, requiring Node.js afterwards)?

As far as I've tested, the --spa flags generated a bunch of static files, that make the application working well with the appropriate web server settings. But maybe I've missed something? I've seen the comment in #1073 (reply in thread) but I still don't see the real value (or uses) of "Server-side rendering" and "Generated Social cards".

[hay-kot]

Social Cards and improved client performance is the only real reason we have SSR and the Node server.

If you don't care about those, Spa mode should work fine.