Spas Were a Mistake (2022) (opens in new tab)

For years, a trend in our industry has been to build single-page apps, or SPAs. With an SPA, the entire site or app lives in a single HTML file. After the initial load, everything about the app is handled with JavaScript. This is, in theory, supposed to result in web apps that feel as fast and snappy as native apps. Today, I want to explore why that’s nonsense. Let’s dig in!