> huge accretions of complexity for very little payoff
Am I in a minority finding SPAs significantly easier to write and maintain than server-rendered HTML and JS? Or is this point of view merely a reflection of where my experience lay in the 2000s (server-rendered) vs 2020s (SPAs)?
Russell paints a convincing picture of cargo cult programming with this article, but it all seems to hinge on the supposition that the datasets are compiling complete logs of what web developers are doing with all their SPA-driven DOM manipulation capabilities. I'm happy to be proven wrong, but the idea that developers are just recreating MPAs with React sounds silly.
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@dang how do I change “Spas” in the title back to “SPAs” as was originally submitted? It’s a misleading title after the automatic transformation.
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