> It's about making desktop-class applications more accessible via the web.
Everyone understands this is what devs are trying to do. The complaint is that my local newspaper doesn’t need a desktop class application. Nor does my bank, nor does Reddit for that matter.
There are vanishingly few websites that need a “desktop application” performance profile. Most websites are just viewing documents. The size of the SPA frameworks is frequently higher than the actual content being viewed.
Finally, if matching desktop app performance is truly the goal, the majority of SPAs fail horribly. Poor request patterns and transitions make the pages just as slow as server side rendered html. I would rather wait one second to get a JS-free response than look at another damn spinning circle for 5 seconds as the page sputters new elements in.
Everyone understands this is what devs are trying to do. The complaint is that my local newspaper doesn’t need a desktop class application. Nor does my bank, nor does Reddit for that matter.
There are vanishingly few websites that need a “desktop application” performance profile. Most websites are just viewing documents. The size of the SPA frameworks is frequently higher than the actual content being viewed.
Finally, if matching desktop app performance is truly the goal, the majority of SPAs fail horribly. Poor request patterns and transitions make the pages just as slow as server side rendered html. I would rather wait one second to get a JS-free response than look at another damn spinning circle for 5 seconds as the page sputters new elements in.