[ryanbrunner]

Having your site work with "raw html" pays off several times over in my opinion, even if you completely ignore people who actually turn off Javascript:

- Page navigation becomes easier if you know the server can handle any route you throw at it as a launch point.

- You can get by with cheaper end-to-end tests for critical flows by not using Javascript in your test suite (although you should be careful to use it when it's important)

- You get a degree of protection if something does go wrong on the front end that you get a non-JS experience to fall back to.

- Pages that genuinely don't need Javascript (think like simple CRUD forms) don't have to pay the SPA tax.