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Re:Rebuilding our tech stack for the new facebook.com by ptx on Saturday May 09, 2020 @05:43AM (#23123346)
> You can then switch back and forth between an online marketplace and a streaming service without losing the state of your chat window.

On the other hand, if you built these things with lighter-weight techniques, these separate parts of the application could be opened in separate browser tabs or windows (without your computer grinding to a halt from loading multiple instances of a gigantic SPA.)

Re:Rebuilding our tech stack for the new facebook.com by marcthe12 on Saturday May 09, 2020 @08:44AM (#23124265)
I sometime wish iframes were more useful.