Kids these days, not around in the 90s when all web pages were static and every link refreshed the entire page.
There's a happy middle ground between heavyweight javascript SPAs and static pages.
Frankly I love it when I interact with a web page and it doesn't have to reload the whole page just to update a single element, article, etc that I requested.
But neither am I fan of overly heavy frontend JS apps, like how Twitter used to be [1], or Quora seems to be, for example. Especially since I'm a chronic browser tab abuser where JS-heavy pages bring my browser to a halt or make it chug.
So yeah, aim for that sweet spot happy middle ground when possible.
There's a happy middle ground between heavyweight javascript SPAs and static pages.
Frankly I love it when I interact with a web page and it doesn't have to reload the whole page just to update a single element, article, etc that I requested.
But neither am I fan of overly heavy frontend JS apps, like how Twitter used to be [1], or Quora seems to be, for example. Especially since I'm a chronic browser tab abuser where JS-heavy pages bring my browser to a halt or make it chug.
So yeah, aim for that sweet spot happy middle ground when possible.
[1]:https://blog.twitter.com/2012/improving-performance-on-twitt...