Introduction
Explore how Edge Side Includes (ESI) facilitate server-side integration by combining HTML fragments from multiple web applications. Understand the benefits and limitations of ESI, its implementation in caches and CDNs, and how it enhances web performance and caching strategies in microservice environments.
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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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