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The myth that you can’t build interactive web apps except as single page app

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260 points gherkinnn | 5 comments | 17 Nov 24 13:44 UTC | HN request time: 0.807s | source
1. nsonha ◴[17 Nov 24 14:53 UTC] No.42164476[source]▶
Do I have to point out that "you can do X without Y" is never an interesting nor insightful statement? No shit! so? Does that mean you should do X without Y?
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2. zdragnar ◴[17 Nov 24 15:09 UTC] No.42164558[source]▶
This is largely code for "I used to slap shit together and nobody told me I did a bad job. Now I slap shit together and people tell me it's just shit slapped together and I don't like that."

The real gradient is more like:

1) a SPA is needed because it might have to run offline

2) A SPA is extremely beneficial because the state of complex interactive are difficult to maintain on the server

3) A SPA helps because we have complex interactions and want to keep the server stateless

4) A SPA is used because we only have developers who haven't done it any other way and won't be fast enough trying something new

5) A SPA is strictly detrimental and ought not be used because there aren't any complex interactions and the added weight to processing / network traffic / etc overwhelm whatever justification we had.

This is not really novel, newsworthy or even worth yet another rambling blog post.

3. danaris ◴[17 Nov 24 16:32 UTC] No.42165048[source]▶
It's interesting when the common wisdom is that you cannot do X without Y.
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4. itronitron ◴[17 Nov 24 22:11 UTC] No.42167808[source]▶
Doing X without Y seems very one-dimensional though.
5. nsonha ◴[18 Nov 24 01:13 UTC] No.42168827[source]▶
No the common wisdom is that you should not...