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refreshing to see large scale providers still relying on „old-school“ tech! Somewhat OT but Github is really "old school" - they don't have an SPA frontend and

• mediumdeviation 5y ago
  That approach unfortunately also makes keeping state updates consistent very difficult. Some pet peeves - when reviewing code, if you set up some file filters then scroll down to trigger more files to load, those newly loaded files are not affected by the previously set filters. Or occasionally the page would helpfully offer to reload to show new commits, but clicking that link loses the current white space and file filter settings. SPA frameworks aren’t a silver bullet here, and you can definitely fix these without using one, but these bugs are definitely much harder to make since the DOM is rendered from a single source of truth instead of being patched piecemeal.
  • d3nj4l 5y ago
    That’s a good point. I’ve faced a couple of issues like that doing pure server side rails and mostly dealt with them by not having “infinite” scroll, though I guess that’s not an option in all cases. I think Stimulus can go some way in making experiences like that possible without a full SPA.