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What does it even mean to parse a React app? Crawlers can't resolve the halting problem, either.


> Crawlers can't resolve the halting problem, either.

And yet, that’s where we’re at today. Blogspot posts require JS. So many other pieces of content are similarily built.

And with phatomjs gone, we’re now running entire headless browsers just to test if websites are rendered correctly. It’s insanity.




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