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Kids these days, not around in the 90s when all web pages were static and every link refreshed the entire page. There's a happy middle ground between heavyweig
by SkyMarshal 13y ago
Kids these days, not around in the 90s when all web pages were static and every link refreshed the entire page.
There's a happy middle ground between heavyweight javascript SPAs and static pages.
Frankly I love it when I interact with a web page and it doesn't have to reload the whole page just to update a single element, article, etc that I requested.
But neither am I fan of overly heavy frontend JS apps, like how Twitter used to be [1], or Quora seems to be, for example. Especially since I'm a chronic browser tab abuser where JS-heavy pages bring my browser to a halt or make it chug.
So yeah, aim for that sweet spot happy middle ground when possible.
[1]:https://blog.twitter.com/2012/improving-performance-on-twittercom https://blog.twitter.com/2012/improving-performance-on-twitt...