Been watching this thread all day and I’m dumbfounded no one has spoken up for React with a modern router like found[0]. Once you learn to use these things, making an SPA is really nice, and you can easily introduce universal rendering which takes your SPA to the next level by rendering it on the server.

I find it strange that people talk like server rendered pages with progressive enchancent a la 2013 aka Stack Overflow aka GitHub are easy to make and maintain. It’s 2018 and when you close an issue on GitHub the count doesn’t change until you refresh the page. It’s 2018 and when you go back on Stack Overflow the alerts you just dismissed are suddenly unread again. These are companies capitalized with hundreds of millions of dollars yet they are incapable of making server rendering with progressive enchancement work. It’s not their fault, it’s the technology, it’s busted.

Yet for some reason people are lauding server rendering as effective and desirable and capable of producing rich UI that’s sane to build and maintain. It’s not. It’s unmanagable at any scale.

With React etc in 2018 all of these problems have been solved, and as I said above, the SPA is not even something to argue about anymore because you can render your app on the client or the server. This whole article is moot. All these problems have been solved and the solutions are free for anyone who has the interest and bandwidth to build products like it’s 2018.

[0] https://github.com/4Catalyzer/found