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Question: what is the advantage of SPA for a statically generated site?

• pknight 8y ago
  Once the first page is loaded subsequent interactions that would normally require a full page request can be done with smaller requests and with nice transition effects.
  • hawski 8y ago
    Lately I've been thinking that browsers could do whole DOM diffing for the transitions between the same origin. Browser could just retain a current DOM, then just replace what's different. I wonder how hard would it be to implement. I understand that it's not how it works currently. But I hate that most SPAs out there fail to signify progress and failure. I click something and nothing happens. It's infuriating.
    • uallo 8y ago
      Something like https://github.com/turbolinks/turbolinks https://github.com/turbolinks/turbolinks ?
      • hawski 8y ago
        Yes, but built-in in browser. Edit: and fully automatic. Browser would try to replace what it could, but only as long as the origin remains the same.