Ask HN: Best JavaScript Single Page Apps

Posted by binaryanomaly on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @03:53AM
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What are the best SPAs (Single Page Apps) you've encountered so far?

I'm looking for good examples to demonstrate business the potentially better experience with an SPA over classic server side produced html pages.

Complex examples would be preferred over simple ones.

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Re:Ask HN: Best JavaScript Single Page Apps by hdra on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @05:56AM (#8101411)

Trello https://trello.com

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Re:Ask HN: Best JavaScript Single Page Apps by brianchu on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @06:07AM (#8101437)

Facebook, Twitter, Asana. Interestingly, each developed their own JavaScript libraries/frameworks - React, Flight, and Luna (Luna is not open-source).

Others: Google Maps.

I don't find Gmail to be a particularly good example, unfortunately.

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Re:Ask HN: Best JavaScript Single Page Apps by binaryanomaly on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @10:56AM (#8102522)

Thanks for the examples with frameworks. Still looking for more good corporate sites with Angular or the likes...

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Re:Ask HN: Best JavaScript Single Page Apps by brianchu on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @06:57PM (#8105469)

Two salient examples of Angular include: Amazon's AWS dev console (not the best example of Angular, but the only public use by a large corp I know of), and Lift's web app (lift.do).

I also know that Apple uses Angular for a few internal (non-public) developer tools/consoles.

Angular is a framework, heavier than the other frameworks too. Twitter and Facebook are particularly good examples because they use both server and client-side rendering, so they get the best of both worlds (fast initial page render and fast subsequent client renders). I love Angular, but Angular can't do this currently.

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Re:Ask HN: Best JavaScript Single Page Apps by binaryanomaly on Wednesday July 30, 2014 @02:52AM (#8106748)

AWS dev console? I can only find the mgmt. console and it looks not like angular - do you have an url?

http://www.nasa.gov/ uses angular as well bit it's a bit media heavy why i consider it only a mediocre example.

With angular you can include server side produced html as well? Or how are React and Flight better regarding that aspect?

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Re:Ask HN: Best JavaScript Single Page Apps by oever on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @08:35AM (#8101873)

Another self-plug: WebODF and ViewerJS. Editor and viewer of OpenDocument Format files respectively. 100% client side. http://webodf.org http://viewerjs.org

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Re:Ask HN: Best JavaScript Single Page Apps by marcomassaro on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @10:03PM (#8106024)

http://getflow.com

backbone + rails

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Re:Ask HN: Best JavaScript Single Page Apps by thatha7777 on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @05:30AM (#8101356)

GMail is a single-page app that popularized rendering on the browser/AJAX in many ways.

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Re:Ask HN: Best JavaScript Single Page Apps by tzaman on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @04:55AM (#8101277)

shameless self-promo: https://app.codeable.io (our startup). We have rewritten the whole app in AngularJS (with Rails API).

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Re:Ask HN: Best JavaScript Single Page Apps by matiaspenas on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @06:14AM (#8101458)

Dont send us to a sign-in page without knowing what you do.

https://codeable.io/

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Re:Ask HN: Best JavaScript Single Page Apps by tzaman on Tuesday July 29, 2014 @03:11PM (#8104314)

That was deliberate, because you can't see the app unless logged in, but can see the source

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