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Re:Moving on from React, a Year Later by staticelf on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @06:09AM (#42791478)
I think this varies wildly on the type of app you're building. If you are building something like CRUD interfaces obviously a server side focus is very viable and useful since you don't have to have double state management. I am thinking apps like ecommerce, banking or management software.

But if you're building a very client heavy application that does something like Photo editing, CAD, video editing etc I have a hard time seeing a server side generated content to be successful because you need a lot of client side state no matter what.

For example, I have done a lot with maps and it's not possible AFAIK to render the canvas on the server since it's a browser only api. Also I don't really see the benefit since it takes too much computational power to generate graphical things on the server.

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Re:Moving on from React, a Year Later by megalord on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @06:25AM (#42791581)
I agree with this, it was always the case with everything in the real world as well. People use tools that can best handle the problem they have. However, I think most today's websites/apps do not require to be SPA oriented. If only the one page requires heavy client-side interaction, there's always possibility to use SPA library only on that one particular page
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Re:Moving on from React, a Year Later by staticelf on Wednesday January 22, 2025 @09:58AM (#42793489)
I agree, most websites would benefit greatly from using something like Phoenix Liveview, Hotwire, Livewire etc. That way you get all the benefits of a SPA without having to deal with the extra complexity of double state management.

I wish I was doing those kinds of apps because that tech seems wonderfully nice to work with. Unfortunately I do client heavy apps mostly so I don't have the benefit from using one. Offline support is... impossible to do good with those kinds of tools.

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