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But it does seem that no one enjoys actually building MPAs and that force is currently winning right now.

• boredumb 3y ago
  Using your favorite language, a simple http listerner+routing and what ever HTML templating engines are supported, MPAs are simple and enjoyable to build. I think product people enjoyed pretending they were facebook for a while and decided the world needed more infinitely scrolling SPAs and forced a lot of people into having to use react and other frontend heavy frameworks to try to wrangle all the (often times brittle) javascript involved to juggle client state. I don't think we're better off as users or developers because of this.
  • berkes 3y ago
    It's rather easy to add infinite scrolling to an MPA too, though. A few lines of JS is all you need. I'd argue this is simpler and easier than investing in a full blown ui library and state manager or painting yourself into some corner of today's JS framework.