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Most SPAs seem to only serve one or two 'soft' navigations after the initial 'hard' navigation (the one that loads the entire app upfront), meaning the cost is not being amortized across many requests, negating the whole point of the architecture.

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[–] Feyd@programming.dev 9 points 2 weeks ago

Just answering the title without looking deeper. Yes, absolutely. SPA has it's place but almost every site that exists would be better off using old school server side frameworks. And instead of realizing the mistake the industry has doubled down and made these insane SSR SPA frameworks that are the worst of all worlds