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We find that carefully picking app boundary is a big deal to reduce that pain. Also, performance has to be a first class citizen in your org. Since users will be page refreshing a lot, you can't tolerate 5 second load times. With that said, we find that techies care a lot more about fancy client side routing and not having page transitions than users do.

There are a few places where its critical though (places where users go back and forth hundreds of times a day), and the routes are too big to keep as a single app while keeping the benefits of our architecture. For that, having separate builds, each generating their own final scripts, but dumping them on the same page is a decent compromise. You don't get all the benefits (you will have a single page, so dependencies have to be compatible and play well with each other. One script can cause another to break, etc), but the user doesn't pay the price.

Thats a last resort, but sometimes it has to be done.