Comment by zozbot234
4 years ago
To be fair, there are SPA frameworks that try to minimize the amount of logic that's shipped to the client, Svelte is an example, which should be as lean and efficient as any hand-coded JS. It's more of a side effect of what frameworks you use than SPA per se.
It's still a specialty sub-discipline though. Getting the base size down is a wonderful goal for a framework. But for the behavior the company is adding, there are both diminishing returns and a lot of surface area for bugs.