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It's pretty crazy. I have just about the exact same experience I'd say. On personal projects I'm moving back towards straight CSS, Vanilla JS (maybe I'll use jQuery if they get more complicated, they're very bare bones at the moment), and server generated HTML with Django templates. Web Development seems to move at this incredible pace. I also started just about 8 years ago and I've gone through jQuery, Angular 1, Ba…
Just to give this some perspective, the entire Wordperfect 5.2 download is less than 4MB! https://winworldpc.com/product/wordperfect/5x-dos https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24413394 Web development has become so cludgy especially with the SPAs which do not even support bookmarking.
Well SPA can do route rewrites if it's taken care of properly (Vue Router makes this easy). I'm always pushing for it on my projects for usability and link sharing. There's no reason to not have it.