We had a very static product, and one of our devs decided to make more use of client-side rendering despite essentially being a set of unchanging forms. This qu

We had a very static product, and one of our devs decided to make more use of client-side rendering despite essentially being a set of unchanging forms. This quickly got out of hand, so we adopted a hybrid approach. I built out another product, which was much more dynamic and made sense as a SPA. However, having been bitten by the forced SPA, I decided to do as much static rendering as feasible, and I think that has made things a lot easier to develop and less buggy. Honestly, I agree that a SPA is usually a bad idea and prefer to have as much of the app be able static as possible since that simplifies things considerably. For example, slack could open a separate tab for settings (and perhaps chat history) and only have the chat parts as a SPA. It would make it slightly less fancy, but also probably much lighter on resources, faster to load, and easier to develop.