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Re:Show HN: Sapper.js – towards a better web app framework by nine_k on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @01:05PM (#16053768)
"Right tool for the job", as the old saying goes.

There are sites that indeed are applications, with lots of updates occurring dynamically on a page: a chat, a dashboard, any type of control interface. They do benefit from the libraries that make highly dynamic things efficient.

There are sites that are best served as static pages. This includes the server component, too, BTW. A static site generator producing plain HTML + CSS is often a good replacement to something like Wordpress.

Some people use latest trending tech for no good reason, just to show off. But the problem here lies not in the tech used.

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Re:Show HN: Sapper.js – towards a better web app framework by goatlover on Tuesday January 02, 2018 @02:38PM (#16054778)
Agreed, don't make SPAs out of sites that work well as traditional websites. Browsers and the internet are fast at serving up html & css these days. Even PHP rendering is pretty damn fast. And it best fits how browsers work for traditional sites.
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