Re:Browsers are pretty good at loading pages
by TeMPOraL on Monday July 22, 2019 @03:39AM
(#20495989)
I'd guess as much as 90% of pages out there - fetch a blob of data from the server, render it, and have most interactions not touch the server at all.
You can view e.g. ecommerce sites as blogs with one post per combination of (search query, filter switches, page selected). This necessitates frequent shots to server, but the site otherwise transfers roughly a page's worth of data per viewed page. I've never seen an on-line shop that was made better by being an SPA, over an old-school page reload every click.
Similarly discussion forums - there's Discourse that's arguably more gimmicky with its client-side magic; beyond that, if you want to see what would happen if you turned HN into an SPA, look no further than the dumpster fire the new Reddit design is.
You can view e.g. ecommerce sites as blogs with one post per combination of (search query, filter switches, page selected). This necessitates frequent shots to server, but the site otherwise transfers roughly a page's worth of data per viewed page. I've never seen an on-line shop that was made better by being an SPA, over an old-school page reload every click.
Similarly discussion forums - there's Discourse that's arguably more gimmicky with its client-side magic; beyond that, if you want to see what would happen if you turned HN into an SPA, look no further than the dumpster fire the new Reddit design is.