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[-] asyncrosaurus@programming.dev 65 points 1 year ago

SPAs are mostly garbage, and the internet has been irreparably damaged by lazy devs chasing trends just to building simple sites with overly complicated fe frameworks.

90% of the internet actually should just be rendered server side with a bit of js for interactivity. JQuery was fine at the time, Javascript is better now and Alpinejs is actually awesome. Nowadays, REST w/HTMX and HATEOAS is the most productive, painless and enjoyable web development can get. Minimal dependencies, tiny file sizes, fast and simple.

Unless your web site needs to work offline (it probably doesn't), or it has to manage client state for dozen/hundreds of data points (e.g. Google Maps), you don't need a SPA. If your site only needs to track minimal state, just use a good SSR web framework (Rails, asp.net, Django, whatever).

[-] nayminlwin@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I'm still hoping for browsers to become some kind of open standard application environments and web apps to become actual apps running on this environment.

[-] icesentry@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

How are browser not that already? What's missing?

They are an open standard and used to make many thousands of apps.

[-] nayminlwin@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I'm thinking more along the line of ubiquitous offline first PWAs. Imagine google doc running offline in a browser and being able to edit local docs directly. I guess secure file system access is one of the major road blocks, though I'm not sure of the challenges associated with coming up with a standard for this.

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