Re:Why does everyone suddenly hate Single Page Apps?
by rektide on Saturday February 25, 2023 @02:39AM
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For real.
The solution to bad url routing in SPAs is distributing our work across a madcap wild ass front-end/back-end split with ill defined borders & no protocols? What's happening now is 500% more complicated.
But the magic is well packaged & available by default.
The SSR world has frameworks: but as another commenter pointed out, React stopped at being merely a library. And so it's been anarchy, deciding how to SPA, with many folks not realizing how many needs/libraries they really needed to have.
I'm hugely in favor of SPAs, but there's been a lack of well-integrated sensible approaches. The attempt to identify & only solve a narrow window of concerns has hurt our ability to imagine what apps are, left huge voids all over.
The solution to bad url routing in SPAs is distributing our work across a madcap wild ass front-end/back-end split with ill defined borders & no protocols? What's happening now is 500% more complicated.
But the magic is well packaged & available by default.
The SSR world has frameworks: but as another commenter pointed out, React stopped at being merely a library. And so it's been anarchy, deciding how to SPA, with many folks not realizing how many needs/libraries they really needed to have.
I'm hugely in favor of SPAs, but there's been a lack of well-integrated sensible approaches. The attempt to identify & only solve a narrow window of concerns has hurt our ability to imagine what apps are, left huge voids all over.