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Discussion on: Dev.to is the perfect demonstration of how content-based web apps should be developed

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Bigi Lui

Great links! Just finished reading the frontend brain dump, planning to read the others as well.

Thank you so much for using React/Preact in various modules of the site dispersed in different places, instead of a SPA. I believe this is the right way to go for content-based web apps. Too many tech startups default to React and SPA just because that's what everyone else is doing, and perhaps in some ways it's "easier" to just go full SPA when you already want to use React (for organizational and team-scaling reasons). When React modules are small and separate on a page, they are really snappy. When it's a SPA and entire pages changes, it feels way more sluggish than what you do with Instant Click and HTML outputs from server. I wish what you do is the standard across the web among content sites.