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by jakelazaroff 2001 days ago
And you'd be wrong. SPA frameworks are almost entirely absent from this list.

HN discourse would have you think single-page apps are pervasive, but they're only on a tiny fraction of websites: https://css-tricks.com/how-the-web-is-really-built/

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Given that most public-facing websites want to benefit from SEO, it doesn't make sense to build a SPA for those websites.

I'd bet the majority of developers working on SPAs are doing so for internal dashboards/tools.

You can render SPAs before the page loads, which eliminate any potential issues with SEO. This is how it should be done and the approach frameworks like Next.js take.