alt Hacker NewsMy biggest annoyance with SPAs is that they usually break forward/back/history in various subtle (or not so subtle) ways.
Yes, I know that this can be made to work properly, in principle. The problem is that it requires effort that most web devs are apparently unwilling to spend. So in practice things are just broken.
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jefozabuss • 05/03/2025
I still have some ptsd from payment gateway integrations via iframes about 6-7 years ago. If you thought SPAs are bad by themselves for history tracking imagine those banking iframes randomly adding more entries via inside navigation/redirection that you have to track manually.
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An additional one for me is stale state. I can leave most webpages open for days, except SPAs. Especially on mobile.