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0 pointsSpivak4y ago0 comments

Wait what? Other than "the client blocks JS" which is niche beyond niche the SPA is the one that actually performs better with a spotty network. Fully offline or "occasionally connected" is half the reason to use an SPA. Just as an example once downloaded FB messenger is fully functional over an unreliable network.

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marcosdumay4y ago

Hum... I have never seen a SPA perform well with a spotty network.

Yeah, I get what you are trying to get, that an SPA can retry failures, prioritize resources better, reload less data... They just never do that competently, as it is a shitload of work, and the "once downloaded" part is irrelevant, because people only ever load a couple of pages on most sites visits.

southerntofu4y ago

Did you try it? Try with 256Kb/s and 20% packet loss (and if your networking tooling allows it, bursts of >1s downtime every 20s) and tell me which one performs better. Yes that's actual conditions in which many people access the Internet in 2021 whether it's on cellular or crappy xDSL.

I've yet to see a single SPA that can deal with such conditions, while native HTML/CSS will work like a breeze in any web browser. For bonus points, browser UI can tell you which requests take a long time and/or refresh any page while maintaining a cache, something most SPAs are really bad at doing, and you get SEO/interoperability for free due to your markup being a curl call away from any client.

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