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0 pointsNextgrid6y ago0 comments

> Whose "most projects" are we talking about here?

Go on a job board, search for React/Vue/Your-Favorite-SPA-framework, go to their website and then see if there are any features that would actually justify an SPA.

Some examples: the Airbnb website, the New Reddit, etc.

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true_religion6y ago· 2 in thread

I would use reddit as a counter example. Sure some the new features could be built without an SPA, but it would be much harder to do so.

They have a full wysgi for theming built in, a real time chat app, a video sharing app, multiple messaging platforms, and methods of bundling multiple subreddits together.

They added all this really fast, due to the nature of the platform being an SPA.

I have the same issue at work. Any given feature in isolation could be done simply as a jQuery plugin, but together the only way to make it seamless is an SPA.

NextgridOP6y ago

Did you not compare how much faster & more usable their old platform is compared to the new one? The new one is painful to use.

true_religion6y ago

It used to be true. Their first few months of the SPA was really rough on the UX front, but it really improved since then.

They have a good design staff, but there was so many minor decisions made over the years that no knew exactly what was a necessary feature of the UI and what was just fluff.

They needed some real world testing to get a better design.

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