Comment by notatoad

>e.g. you're building Figma

i think what it comes down to is if you have to make a decision of "should i build an SPA?" the answer is no. the web is good at doing pages. if your app has pages, use the web's default page mechanism.

and i don't say this as a hater of single-page apps. i love webapps, and i think that building a webapp should be the default for most cases. there's a lot of apps that don't naturally break into a "page" metaphor, and all the technologies that are part of the single-page app concept are great for those cases.

figma is a perfect example, because there's no obvious division between what would be one page versus another. it's not a paginated website that has been built as an SPA, it's literally just one page that has a whole bunch of interactivity.