Comment by zippergz
4 years ago
I'm living proof that it is possible to simultaneously hate SPAs and understand why they are popular. I've built and worked on a number of them, I don't have a better alternative to recommend, and yet I still hate them because I think they are a clunky solution to the problem. We need something better, but I'm not smart enough to come up with what that should be.
I don't think I'm any more smart when it comes to this particular issue, but my thought is that the answer probably has something to do with more primitives that are suited for web applications being provided by web browsers, so it's both easier to build a web app without some huge gangly framework and so frameworks have more to build on top of and less manual footwork introducing room for error.