None of my projects want to be SPAs

Re:None of my projects want to be SPAs by Casperin on Monday February 11, 2019 @05:12PM (#19138881)

Some years ago, 3 of us picked React for a startup. I consider it the single biggest mistake in my career, but we picked it not for the reason you mention. We didn't think that far (I was perhaps a junior, but the others weren't). It was just a matter of picking the frontend framework that we liked the best (I think the options were between Backbone, Ember, AngularJS, React). In our minds we did pick the simple option.

Some may be aware, but certainly not everyone.

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Re:None of my projects want to be SPAs by pault on Monday February 11, 2019 @08:06PM (#19140113)

> I consider it the single biggest mistake in my career

I have to ask... what went so wrong? If you had a time machine, what would you tell your younger self?

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Re:None of my projects want to be SPAs by Casperin on Monday February 18, 2019 @04:23PM (#19194583)

Oh I'm so sorry, I didn't see the replies.

It was a mistake because we needed to move fast and figure out if we had something or not. A simple CRUD website (say Ruby on Rails, Elixir/Phoenix, or even straight up Node/Express) would have been faster to build and iterate on.

There was one section of it that would benefit from being able to work while offline, so that could perhaps have been built as a small SPA. But the rest, that was in hindsight a mistake.

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Re:None of my projects want to be SPAs by wolco on Monday February 11, 2019 @05:29PM (#19139049)

If you had to redo what would you pick? Why not jQuery?

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Re:None of my projects want to be SPAs by Casperin on Monday February 18, 2019 @04:25PM (#19194600)

jQuery would have been fine, but honestly the website did not need that much js (if any). It should just have been a CRUD website.

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