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A comment on Ask HN: Has web development really become easier than 10 years ago?.

Re:Ask HN: Has web development really become easier than 10 ... by thosakwe on Sunday November 05, 2017 @11:46AM (#15630187)
To be fair, I haven't been doing Web dev for 10 years, but I definitely agree that frontend development is incredibly time-consuming.

Especially if you're trying to build something alone, I find it really impractical.

IMO, not every Web application needs to be an SPA. Depending on the scale of your app, it might benefit you greatly (like if you're Facebook or Google, etc.), but often times you can get away just fine with server-side templating engines or otherwise.

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Re:Ask HN: Has web development really become easier than 10 ... by dozzie on Sunday November 05, 2017 @12:40PM (#15630526)
> IMO, not every Web application needs to be an SPA.

Actually, it goes like this:

- not every website needs to be dynamic

- few dynamic websites need to be applications

- and very few webapplications need to be SPA

Though it would be very boring (as nearly all work that is valuable), and thus we have proliferation of SPAs that present static text.

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