Yeah, I've spent the last year working on a (functionally simple) SPA... I won't mention the framework used because I think it's irrelevant but the experience h

Yeah, I've spent the last year working on a (functionally simple) SPA... I won't mention the framework used because I think it's irrelevant but the experience has only confirmed the position I've maintained for years; in general, web apps are broken. The browser was designed to display hyperlinked text and to support a limited set of actions on form data. IMHO, the main reason the whole web app craze took off was because serving the apps from centralized servers solved a number of the issues around application distribution and updates. This was a big problem at the time but it's ironic that shortly afterward mom, pop, buddy and sis became very comfortable downloading and installing things like iTunes and (even more ironically) browsers.