Comment by jmconfuzeus
4 years ago
The Basecamp guys created Hey which is a mail app not implemented as a SPA. It's probably the fastest mail app I've ever seen while delivering around 40kb of javascript.
If Hey is a toy app you then you must be working on some truly alien projects from the future or something.
While it might be fast, it feels you’re like using Rails app with turbo links. Page loads. Feels barely interactive.
Compare native Mail app and Hey. If anything should be a SPA, it’s an email app.
Also who cares how much kb of JavaScript your mail app uses? It’s completely wrong metric to optimize for an app someone uses every day, multiple times a day and likely has the app open all the time.
(Also haven’t heard people using Hey much since the launch)