I’ve noticed that a lot of developers tend to hate things that they’ve tried building but they found it too hard. People enjoy doing things they’re good at and hate doing things they suck at.

There are a lot of SPAs that shouldn’t be SPAs, but that doensn’t mean all SPAs are bad. This isn’t your grandpa’s web browser anymore. We’ve moved on from the web being all about hyperlinked documents. The browser is also an app runtime, just like your smart phone.

If server-side rendering was the only good way to build web apps, then it stands to reason thay it’s the only good way to build phone apps with equivalent functionality. Maybe phone apps should also start re-rendering the entire UI on the server every time the user taps something.