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Re:Goodbye CoffeeScript, Hello TypeScript by simula67 on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @02:46AM (#10424027)
One very important point against SPAs is URLs. URLs are central to the design of the web. Lets say I want to talk about a particular commit on github. I can just pick the URL for that commit and email it to someone else. They can click on the link and land directly on the commit page. If it is a single page app, I will have to tell them 'Go to this URL, click here, and then click there' etc.

Same case with blog posts. Sites like HN would not even exist if everyone published all their posts in SPAs.

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Re:Goodbye CoffeeScript, Hello TypeScript by yoonay on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @12:32PM (#10426565)
Most SPAs I've used handle the routing with JavaScript, making your URL sharing use-case possible. It's not very hard to implement either, that stuff is covered quite early in most AngularJs resources out there. In fact, creating a large SPA without some sort of routing sounds like a nightmare.
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Re:Goodbye CoffeeScript, Hello TypeScript by dragonwriter on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @02:56AM (#10424051)
Or you can build a SPA that supports jumping to a particular resource with a URL, Like not breaking the back button in a SPA, this is technically possible, even if it is all-to-rarely done.
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