Comment by midrus

> done correctly

Big assumption. This is what the whole discussion is about. Doing "correctly" an SPA is incredibly expensive.

I can also assure you that when an MVC application is done correctly you can have an equally good user experience.

> The server rendered app will ALWAYS have to wait at least 1xRTT for every new render. The SPA does not.

This is an outdated idea of how server rendered apps work. See Unpoly, HTMX, LiveWire, Hotwire, etc.

I'm personally using Livewire. I make server request in only 2 situations. 1) When going to different pages (I'd need that anyway with an SPA given I need "SSR") and 2) When I'd need to write or read data from the server, which with an SPA would mean I need an API call anyway. Every other interaction is done with Alpine, 100% client side.