None of my projects want to be SPAs

Single Page App. Simply: the application is loaded once when you navigate to the page and more ajax calls are used to retrieve data, perform actions as you use the app.

Re: None of my projects want to be SPAs

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Post by ohazi » Mon, Feb 11, 2019, 1:56 PM UTC

nisten wrote: post #2

Wtf is an SPA?

Single page application. A website where the first request loads the site, and most/all subsequent clicks make http requests in the background without reloading the whole page, and then update the content using JavaScript.

Re: None of my projects want to be SPAs

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Post by arcticwombat » Mon, Feb 11, 2019, 1:57 PM UTC

I have to say my experience tracks this too.

A lot of the "modern" toolsets just aren't worth the extra fluff they add.

Writing SPA's in React, Angular, etc. tend to result in a very heavy first page load, then api calls with poor UX for all actions.

Re: None of my projects want to be SPAs

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Post by aogaili » Mon, Feb 11, 2019, 1:57 PM UTC

SPA and react are not the same thing.

React is about components and you can use React in something like NextJS which is not a single page app but a server rendered pages.

Also, SPA itself is getting outdated concept, now most apps are hybrid of initial bundle followed by a dynamically imported modules. Finally, MVC is a pattern for web pages, the complexity in the client side because what is the being shipped to the browsers are a client side apps with their own router, render functions, state management and APIs.

Re: None of my projects want to be SPAs

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Post by supermw » Mon, Feb 11, 2019, 1:58 PM UTC

Why do people insist on comparing the initial frontload of a SPA to the page load of every page in their SSR web app?

Once a SPA is loaded you can send tiny crumbs of data faster than any significant SSR.

Re: None of my projects want to be SPAs

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Post by shusson » Mon, Feb 11, 2019, 2:02 PM UTC

supermw wrote: post #9

Why do people insist on comparing the initial frontload of a SPA to the page load of every page in their SSR web app? Once a SPA is loaded you can send tiny crumbs of data faster than any significant SSR.

> Why do people insist on comparing the initial frontload of a SPA to the page load of every page in their SSR web app?

Because a user doesn't care if it's the initial frontload or not.