SEO

[tobyzerner]

_1 Upvote_ For SEO, Flarum's Laravel app needs to respond to the same URLs as in the Ember app, serving up very basic semantically-correct HTML within <noscript> tags. Additionally, the Laravel app should preload the page's data into the Ember Data store to avoid the need for additional requests after the page loads.

[mikedugan]

yuck, SEO. Anyway, @tobscure how's your javascript-foo? I've never worked with JS, and I'm the posterchild of people who have an irrational dislike for javascript, so I'm kind of curious where our strengths are there.

[tobyzerner]

I'm a bit of a jack of all trades. I've done everything you see in this project to date — design, PHP, and JavaScript/Ember — and would probably consider myself equally able at all of them.

[tobyzerner]

List of routes that the Ember app currently supports that need to be supported in Laravel app:

• Index: /?sort={sort}&q={search}
• Discussion: /{id}-{slug}?start={number}
• User: /u/{username}

[franzliedke]

I would totally assign this to myself, if I could ;)

[tobyzerner]

Sorry, I thought I had granted you access to this repo but I hadn't :S Done now!

[solhuebner]

👍

[romanov]

If JS renders the site, why do you need to make a pure HTML version of it?
http://searchengineland.com/tested-googlebot-crawls-javascript-heres-learned-220157

[tobyzerner]

Starting a fresh with this issue: #189

[tobyzerner]

@romanov In my experience, Googlebot's JS crawling isn't reliable, and other search engines don't crawl JS at all.