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0 pointsimperio5914h ago0 comments

This has been a non issue when using proper routing libraries that push history entries on the stack properly and render routes from the top of the component tree down.

You hate BAD react SPAs that break the fundamentals of how the web works. Good ones take care to not do that.

React fundamentally doesn't cause this issue either. You can use a different framework than react or even vanilla JS and still produce the same bugs.

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Zanfa13h ago

> You hate BAD react SPAs that break the fundamentals of how the web works.

But that’s all of them? If Github, Reddit, LinkedIn and Facebook and others are unable to build SPAs that don’t constantly break the fundamentals while also choking the browser, maybe it is a tech problem.

charcircuit13h ago

If the APIs are too hard to use properly that no site can use it right, then it's a browser issue.

Zanfa13h ago

It’s not that. The sort of issues all of the above have caused are fundamental, eg not using anchor tags for navigation. It’s not in any way easier to use a button or div with an onclick handler. It’s also not easier to serve megabytes of JS to render 5kb of comments.

3eb7988a166314h ago

Sure, but the internet is majority bad SPAs vs good ones. Rarely am I delighted by a SPA, but suffer through how poorly it works in bad network conditions, usable back buttons, or otherwise respecting the user.

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Zanfa13h ago

> You hate BAD react SPAs that break the fundamentals of how the web works.

charcircuit13h ago

If the APIs are too hard to use properly that no site can use it right, then it's a browser issue.

Zanfa13h ago

3eb7988a166314h ago

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse