Regarding 2008 vs 2023… how to view it probably depends on where you were in your career in 2008. To me 2008 -> 2023 looks like mostly shifting details.
SPAs certainly were a thing back then, it was just called AJAX. (Not to mention the desktop apps that were, architecturally, almost the same thing.) jQuery was a response to the popularity of putting interactivity in the browser, not a precursor.
The questions remain the same, not just from 2008, but going back a long ways… Where does the code live? How is it transformed to execute, where does it execute and how it is moved there? Where does the data live, how is it transformed and moved to where it needs to be displayed, and how are changes moved back? When some of the answers shift, due to changing network capabilities, processing capabilities of nodes, or scaling needs, it’s doesn’t really change the overall picture.
SPAs certainly were a thing back then, it was just called AJAX. (Not to mention the desktop apps that were, architecturally, almost the same thing.) jQuery was a response to the popularity of putting interactivity in the browser, not a precursor.
The questions remain the same, not just from 2008, but going back a long ways… Where does the code live? How is it transformed to execute, where does it execute and how it is moved there? Where does the data live, how is it transformed and moved to where it needs to be displayed, and how are changes moved back? When some of the answers shift, due to changing network capabilities, processing capabilities of nodes, or scaling needs, it’s doesn’t really change the overall picture.