> huge accretions of complexity for very little payoff
Am I in a minority finding SPAs significantly easier to write and maintain than server-rendered HTML and JS? Or is this point of view merely a reflection of where my experience lay in the 2000s (server-rendered) vs 2020s (SPAs)?
Russell paints a convincing picture of cargo cult programming with this article, but it all seems to hinge on the supposition that the datasets are compiling complete logs of what web developers are doing with all their SPA-driven DOM manipulation capabilities. I'm happy to be proven wrong, but the idea that developers are just recreating MPAs with React sounds silly.
And the metric in global is not that relevant also. It should differentiate between usages.
I guess that media website could represent a big part of the load where you go for a single view of an article but they would have like you to use them as an app. Opposite to multipage web apps.
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 20.3 ms ] threadAm I in a minority finding SPAs significantly easier to write and maintain than server-rendered HTML and JS? Or is this point of view merely a reflection of where my experience lay in the 2000s (server-rendered) vs 2020s (SPAs)?
I mean, soft-navigations need to be enabled and are experimental: https://developer.chrome.com/docs/web-platform/soft-navigati...
I guess that media website could represent a big part of the load where you go for a single view of an article but they would have like you to use them as an app. Opposite to multipage web apps.