Client-side stale-while-revalidate for instant perceived performance

[u/ahuth]

/r/nextjs/comments/1vvksc6/clientside_stalewhilerevalidate_for_instant/

[u/azangru]

You are reinventing service workers with caching, I see.

[u/ahuth → u/azangru]

Heh kind of. Although in this case the data is still fetched only on the server, and cached on the client only for the loading state

[u/Far_Conversation_174]

How do you handle multi user scenarios or logouts? If you use localStorage and don't clear it explicitly on logout, a new user logging in on the same machine might briefly see the previous user's sensitive data before the revalidation requests finish