Simon Willison 1/28/2026

Adding dynamic features to an aggressively cached website

Read Original

This technical article details how to implement dynamic user-specific features on a heavily cached website. The author, who runs a Django blog behind Cloudflare, demonstrates adding admin-only edit links and a persistent random post navigation system within tags. Both solutions cleverly use client-side localStorage and JavaScript to work around full-page caching, with code examples and implementation logic provided.

Adding dynamic features to an aggressively cached website

Comments

No comments yet

Be the first to share your thoughts!

Browser Extension

Get instant access to AllDevBlogs from your browser

Top of the Week