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Re:Why I hate your Single Page App by darkstar999 on Thursday August 31, 2017 @12:31PM (#15141461)
Most of your criticisms are solved with basic javascript, not necessarily single page applications.

> You forgot to update the styles on that rarely-used page

That's solved with proper css, not SPA.

Re:Why I hate your Single Page App by trjordan on Thursday August 31, 2017 @01:08PM (#15141845)
You're right! If we just implemented everything correctly, there wouldn't be problems!

Anecdotally, every team I've worked with has converted to a SPA, and the main ergonomic upgrade is that updates to the signup page or the "not found" widget quit getting forgotten whenever we change tweak our design. There always seems to be one page that's out-of-date for 2 months before anybody notices, then it quietly gets fixed up because we forgot that the design tweak was a CSS+HTML change, not pure CSS.

Not that that's perfect -- once you have a SPA, nobody remembers the 404 page, because it's a different HTML base...

Re:Why I hate your Single Page App by jfaat on Thursday August 31, 2017 @12:35PM (#15141498)
Also a sane build/deployment process will solve this.