On: Things engineers believe about Web development

[xigoi]

SPAs often require an uninterrupted internet connection even if it’s not technically necessary.

[worthless-trash → xigoi]

Many of them use 'websockets', which break when you have interrupted connectivity.

[christophilus → xigoi]

That’s not been my experience, but you may be right. Why do they require an uninterrupted internet connection?

[sergiosgc → christophilus]

Because they break when a request fails. MPAs have a request resubmission UI out of the box. They also have request history navigation, easy resource bookmarking and other stuff you can reimplement in an SPA but usually don't.

[xigoi → christophilus]

I don’t know. Recently I was viewing an image in the Discord web app and it suddenly disappeared because my device had lost connection, even though the image was already fully loaded in the browser.

[ryanbrunner → xigoi]

I mean to be fair, MPAs are by definition unusable without a consistent internet connection. By design every meaningful interaction needs to communicate with a server.

[xigoi → ryanbrunner]

MPAs only need connection when navigating to a new page. It is not needed when reading a page.