>If you are writing complex web applications with state, local processing of data and asynchronous interactions it's not enough.
>Next objection usually is: do you need complex apps on the client?
It's not even an objection, it's a question I ask and almost never hear a coherent answer to. The vast majority of web applications I use every day (online banking, github, forums, social media, admin interfaces of various developer tools, etc.) don't really need to be dynamic and frontend-rich. I don't care if submitting a form refreshes the page. Funnily enough, full page refresh with a full round trip with "old school websites" is often faster than dynamic SPA interaction.
I don't care that when I click "delete", the item may not disappear from the screen immediately. I don't want to see some in-between state descriptions like "Deleting..." because I know it's a lie in a distributed, eventually consistent system. Just tell me the truth: the request has been sent. I can then refresh the page and see the new current state, whatever it is.
I really don't understand this desire to make websites behave like local apps while in reality they aren't.
>Next objection usually is: do you need complex apps on the client?
It's not even an objection, it's a question I ask and almost never hear a coherent answer to. The vast majority of web applications I use every day (online banking, github, forums, social media, admin interfaces of various developer tools, etc.) don't really need to be dynamic and frontend-rich. I don't care if submitting a form refreshes the page. Funnily enough, full page refresh with a full round trip with "old school websites" is often faster than dynamic SPA interaction.
I don't care that when I click "delete", the item may not disappear from the screen immediately. I don't want to see some in-between state descriptions like "Deleting..." because I know it's a lie in a distributed, eventually consistent system. Just tell me the truth: the request has been sent. I can then refresh the page and see the new current state, whatever it is.
I really don't understand this desire to make websites behave like local apps while in reality they aren't.