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> Whose "most projects" are we talking about here?

Go on a job board, search for React/Vue/Your-Favorite-SPA-framework, go to their website and then see if there are any features that would actually justify an SPA.

Some examples: the Airbnb website, the New Reddit, etc.




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.


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.


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.




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