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by codeflo 2327 days ago
I agree with you. However, making a great single-page app takes a lot of experience and work, a bit less so with current frameworks, but still. A lot of in-house SPAs are truly terrible, with bad performance and broken navigation, you wish the developers wouldn’t have bothered. Multi-page apps might be a bit harder to screw up as badly.

So maybe the user experience hierarchy goes something like: great SPA > MPA > average SPA?

This would mean there’s still a place for MPAs, at least with certain budget constraints.

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> “However, making a great single-page app takes a lot of experience and work, a bit less so with current frameworks, but still.”

So what? Get experience. The days of a plucky developer throwing together some simple page he built over a weekend while reading a programming book and having that be good enough for millions of people around the world are over.

Users will require richer and deeper experiences and that will breed a demand for some developers who actually know what they are doing, and possess a vast experience to draw insights from.