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Comment by ASalazarMX

Our government's COVID statistics site[0] is a SPA. It doesn't need to be, it just shows tables and graphs, but these days any new page seems to needlessly be made as a sluggish SPA.

If you want to check hospital bed occupancy by state, it's 3 clicks, a 5 second spinner while it loads the results and shows the first 20 rows. It doesn't sound that bad, unless you refresh, in that case it throws you back at the landing page.

This should be a static site, but even if not, this is actually slower than a server-side rendered page. SPAs are not desktop-like when they constantly request server data, even if they hide it with slow animations and spinners.

[0] https://www.gits.igg.unam.mx/red-irag-dashboard/reviewHome

parent ASalazarMX 5 years ago

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