“This is something I’ve been thinking about a lot lately. The justification for single page apps feels like circular thinking to me. A JavaScript framework is needed to avoid full page refreshes because full page refreshes are expensive because that means assets will be reloaded …assets like the JavaScript framework that only exists to avoid the full page refresh.
This is how it goes. We put a load of shit into a single web page. This makes the page slow. Slow to load, slow to render. Slow.
Instead of getting rid of the shit, we blame the page refresh.
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