alt Hacker NewsI completely agree with the sentiment that we don’t need SPAs and similar tech for news sites and dashboards and the myriad crud apps we use on a day to day basis but I think what you’re proposing is throwing the baby out with the bath water. How would a site like google maps, which I’m sure we can all agree is extremely useful, work in a Web 1.0 style world? It needs to dynamically load tiles and various other resources. The web being a place where we can host and instantly distribute complex cross-platform interactive software in a fairly secure sandbox is a modern marvel.
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> How would google maps work in a Web 1.0 world?
We had that in the form of MapQuest, and it was agonizingly slow. Click to load the next tile, wait for the page to reload, and repeat. Modern SPAs are a revelation.
You misunderstand me, I’m not proposing we get rid of JavaScript.
I am saying that allowing for JavaScript to be dynamically downloaded and executed after the page is ready was a mistake.
You can build your Google docs, your maps, and figmas. You don’t need JS to be sent after the page is ready to do so.