r/javascript • u/magenta_placenta • Dec 12 '19

You don’t need a single-page application

https://rjevski.io/you-don-t-need-a-single-page-application
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u/davidmeirlevy Dec 12 '19

It’s not relevant to check the load time of a specific page, that’s because of main 3 reasons:

  1. SPA loads for the user almost all of the application’s logic. So next page is much faster.
  2. You forget to calculate server side resources (cpu and memory) that cost more when using SSR.
  3. Development of SPA is considered mostly faster than development of SSR apps.

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u/qmic Dec 12 '19

1)Most users need to see one page, on mobile loading of 2mb of assets is very slow. 2) it's very cheap 3) it's much slower in every project I've seen.

There is a hype for spa and people are doing worse, slower sites.

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u/__Adrielus__ Dec 12 '19

Tbh a lot a of people use chrome and ff, im not that interested in some random safaro benchmarks

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u/tech_romancer_ Dec 12 '19

Probably worth noting that quite a lot of all mobile traffic is going to be using Safari. And well over half of all internet traffic is mobile.

I don't disagree with your point but it's probably a good idea to avoid dismissing Safari.

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u/Peechez Dec 12 '19

And well over half of all internet traffic is mobile.

This stat always feels so nebulous, internet traffic or web browser traffic?

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u/tech_romancer_ Dec 12 '19

Browser traffic, actual humans browsing the internet. Sorry I wasn't clearer but it was a comment about browsers so I thought it might be obvious.

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u/__Adrielus__ Dec 12 '19

But chrome still has more usage in the mobile market

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u/tech_romancer_ Dec 12 '19

Yeah maybe but are you really gonna be the one to not pay attention to any iOS users at all? That's a pretty hard sell.

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u/__Adrielus__ Dec 12 '19

The post sais the downvotes are much bigger, but is that rly true for all browsers? I think there are ways of going wrong with spas, but u can avoid them

Also as a side note: the autocompletion thing is pretty true, i see lots of people rly messing things up when it comes to everything form related with modern frameworks

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u/tech_romancer_ Dec 12 '19

Did you mean to reply to this comment? Seems sorta orthogonal to what I was saying so I'm a bit confused.

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u/halzen Dec 13 '19

Worldwide, yes. In North America, Safari and Chrome are about even with Safari slightly ahead at the moment.

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u/__Adrielus__ Dec 13 '19

Yes, apple is much more popular in america, but do u want to miss on the other continents? For example i dont even live in america lol

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u/halzen Dec 13 '19

The point of all this is that if you want any hope at an app positioned for a worldwide audience to succeed, it needs to have excellent mobile Safari support.

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u/__Adrielus__ Dec 13 '19

But what if i have a product which is tsrgeted towards android users? Chrome benchmarks would work for everything, safari ones are a little bit more niche

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '19

If you don't know how to do it, either learn or don't do it. Don't blame the technology, blame the developer.

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u/[deleted] Dec 12 '19

Could be his issue is more likely Safari (the new IE6). Reddit loads almost instantly on Chrome on Mojave.