Re:Snowpack: Build a web application without a bundler
by true_religion on Thursday January 09, 2020 @06:03AM
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I would use reddit as a counter example.
Sure some the new features could be built without an SPA, but it would be much harder to do so.
They have a full wysgi for theming built in, a real time chat app, a video sharing app, multiple messaging platforms, and methods of bundling multiple subreddits together.
They added all this really fast, due to the nature of the platform being an SPA.
I have the same issue at work. Any given feature in isolation could be done simply as a jQuery plugin, but together the only way to make it seamless is an SPA.
Re:Snowpack: Build a web application without a bundler
by Nextgrid on Thursday January 09, 2020 @11:15AM
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Did you not compare how much faster & more usable their old platform is compared to the new one? The new one is painful to use.
Re:Snowpack: Build a web application without a bundler
by true_religion on Thursday January 09, 2020 @02:28PM
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It used to be true. Their first few months of the SPA was really rough on the UX front, but it really improved since then.
They have a good design staff, but there was so many minor decisions made over the years that no knew exactly what was a necessary feature of the UI and what was just fluff.
They needed some real world testing to get a better design.
Go on a job board, search for React/Vue/Your-Favorite-SPA-framework, go to their website and then see if there are any features that would actually justify an SPA.
Some examples: the Airbnb website, the New Reddit, etc.