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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 | 2 comments | 17 Nov 24 13:44 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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pier25 ◴[17 Nov 24 14:57 UTC] No.42164501[source]▶
> I like to argue that some of the most productive days of the web were the PHP and JQuery spaghetti days

I've wondered if going back to that paradigm would be more productive or not than using React et al.

Plenty of big sites like Amazon or Steam still are made this way. Not exactly PHP + jQuery but rendering HTML on the server and sprinkling some JS on top of it.

Has anyone gone back to working like that?

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gausswho ◴[17 Nov 24 15:38 UTC] No.42164714[source]▶
Steam has largely abandoned it in favor of React in their big facelift a couple years ago.
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1. pier25 ◴[17 Nov 24 16:09 UTC] No.42164912[source]▶
You mean the Steam client or the store?

I was referring to the store. Just checked it and there's tons of jQuery and vanilla stuff (at least on the homepage).

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2. tpxl ◴[18 Nov 24 14:11 UTC] No.42172405[source]▶
The steam client is a web browser displaying the web page, with a few additional things (like installing games and such).