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Ask HN: Best JavaScript Single Page Apps

8 points by binaryanomaly ↗ HN
What are the best SPAs (Single Page Apps) you've encountered so far?

I'm looking for good examples to demonstrate business the potentially better experience with an SPA over classic server side produced html pages.

Complex examples would be preferred over simple ones.

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tzaman
shameless self-promo: https://app.codeable.io (our startup). We have rewritten the whole app in AngularJS (with Rails API).
matiaspenas
Dont send us to a sign-in page without knowing what you do.

https://codeable.io/

tzaman
That was deliberate, because you can't see the app unless logged in, but can see the source
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thatha7777
GMail is a single-page app that popularized rendering on the browser/AJAX in many ways.
brianchu
Facebook, Twitter, Asana. Interestingly, each developed their own JavaScript libraries/frameworks - React, Flight, and Luna (Luna is not open-source).

Others: Google Maps.

I don't find Gmail to be a particularly good example, unfortunately.

binaryanomaly
Thanks for the examples with frameworks. Still looking for more good corporate sites with Angular or the likes...
brianchu
Two salient examples of Angular include: Amazon's AWS dev console (not the best example of Angular, but the only public use by a large corp I know of), and Lift's web app (lift.do).

I also know that Apple uses Angular for a few internal (non-public) developer tools/consoles.

Angular is a framework, heavier than the other frameworks too. Twitter and Facebook are particularly good examples because they use both server and client-side rendering, so they get the best of both worlds (fast initial page render and fast subsequent client renders). I love Angular, but Angular can't do this currently.

binaryanomaly
AWS dev console? I can only find the mgmt. console and it looks not like angular - do you have an url?

http://www.nasa.gov/ uses angular as well bit it's a bit media heavy why i consider it only a mediocre example.

With angular you can include server side produced html as well? Or how are React and Flight better regarding that aspect?