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		tshaddox 17 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Doing Rails Wrong Islands probably have some runtime performance benefits, but the dev experience and build-time complexity is probably just as high or higher than most JavaScript SPA setups.

array_key_first 16 days ago [–]

IMO no, because with a SPA everything has to be a SPA, which is incredibly inconvenient.

The benefit of the island is only the island has to be a SPA. The rest can be SSR.

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