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I think Turbolinks is a nice balace bewteen traditional webpage and SPA. https://github.com/turbolinks/turbolinks

It provides a smooth UX by fetching next page's HTML in background, then replace the DOM by compareing the diff in HTML. So you won't see a blank page while navigating between pages.

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They turned Turbolinks and extended it into a complete framework. I really want to give it a try.

Turbolinks is one of those things that seems revolutionary to begin with, until you need to start implementing hacks in your server in order to deal with edge cases.

Things I remember from the last time I had to deal with these libraries were redirects and hard-to-debug JavaScript issues due to so much JavaScript relying on document ready/onload events.

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