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Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by fermienrico on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @06:15PM (#24055073)
SPAs are a cancer. There. I said it.

What's wrong with accessing resources in a RESTful way?

A page refresh? At this point, a page refresh is so much more bearable than a 2300ms SPA download and hang ups.

As an added bonus, you can bookmark resources. Back button works!

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Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds... by lolinder on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @09:17AM (#24060435)
Most SPA frameworks work fine with the back button and bookmarks--they'll either use the URL fragment (#) or the history API. I'm sure there are lots of developers who don't bother to turn on that functionality, but that's not an inherent flaw with SPAs.

(For the record, I don't think that every app that is an SPA should be, but I do think that they have a place.)

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