Introduction

In this lesson, we'll look at a quick introduction to ESI concepts and what this chapter holds for us.

ESI: concepts #

Servers can also integrate multiple frontends. This chapter focuses on ESI (Edge Side Includes).

ESI (Edge Side Includes) enables web applications to integrate HTML fragments of another web application (See the drawing below). To do so, the web application sends HTML containing ESI tags.

The ESI implementation analyzes the ESI tags and integrates HTML fragments of other web applications in the right positions.

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