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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

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.

Nextgrid 7y 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_religion 7y 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.