Re:Why does everyone suddenly hate Single Page Apps?
by rektide on Saturday February 25, 2023 @02:32AM
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> A web application or a website, by its very nature, is a series of small requests. When someone sends all requests in one big lump of a page, they have just defeated this very important architecture.
I have a hard time seeing this as how most SPAs work.
I see this as how most SSR systems work. Which does seem broken & bad. A user has no potential to understand this world. It's just a mainframe generating some pre-rendered experience that has no real data inside of it.
So actually, no. I think SPAs have moral value. The alternatives that have upstarted recently seem bankrupt, with no legs to stand on. I don't understand where this post comes from. There's an extremely hostile negative high-bullshit pissy attitude here, that isn't backed up by a single thing I can recognize:
> There is no sudden about it, SPA's are yet another one of the so-called "modern web" cancers of the Internet.
Most SPAs seem to be the last defender of doing what you asked for?
I have a hard time seeing this as how most SPAs work.
I see this as how most SSR systems work. Which does seem broken & bad. A user has no potential to understand this world. It's just a mainframe generating some pre-rendered experience that has no real data inside of it.
So actually, no. I think SPAs have moral value. The alternatives that have upstarted recently seem bankrupt, with no legs to stand on. I don't understand where this post comes from. There's an extremely hostile negative high-bullshit pissy attitude here, that isn't backed up by a single thing I can recognize:
> There is no sudden about it, SPA's are yet another one of the so-called "modern web" cancers of the Internet.
Most SPAs seem to be the last defender of doing what you asked for?