[ivanhoe]

Don't regular web sites do exactly the same? They also usually pack all JS and CSS into two big files in order to reduce the number of requests on the initial load, right? And beside in SPAs you can split the code and lazy load it to reduce the load.

[collyw]

In the last Angular app that I inherited every menu on the page needed a separate call to populate it. It probably wasn't the best written app. I think if it had been plain Django with some jQuery for front end validation the size code could have easily been cut by a half or more.