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For over a decade I've heard that SPA and server-side JavaScript is the future. I always believed JavaScript would carve out a place on the server side, but I've always been skeptical about SPA given the often terrible UX and SEO. And besides that, most sites are better off being served statically from a cache.

tl;dr Wake me up when even 5% of sites are SPA.

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Where on earth were you hearing about SPAs and server-side JavaScript in 2004? Was "SPA" even a term before about 2010?

Probably he doesn't mean only JavaScript SPAs. The term was introduced around 2010, but the concept is older. Flex is from ~2004 and is typically used for SPAs which behave like the modern JavaScript applications - they just target the Flash platform instead.

It used to be called Ria,"rich internet applications".Then ajax apps before...nothing new here.

> Wake me up when even 5% of sites are SPA.

5% of all web apps or new build apps?

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