[yunohn]

This is not an angle I’ve heard before - how does an SPA save money?

[eloisius]

It’s cheaper to build single page apps using web developers than to build and maintain multiple platform-specific native apps.

[yunohn]

Not everything needs to be a native application, nor should it be. The vast majority of SaaS and such apps are SPA/equivalent and would NOT benefit from being yet-another-installable app.

Could you provide examples (not exceptions) maybe to support your PoV?

[perryizgr8]

> The vast majority of SaaS and such apps are SPA/equivalent and would NOT benefit from being yet-another-installable app.

Could you provide few examples of such apps that would not benefit from being native?

[easygenes]

So the smaller-scale correlate would be that SPAs can make more sense for proof-of-concept or hobby-developed applications that need some cross-platform access.

[3np]

Offload computations and rendering to the client

[yunohn]

Which computations and what rendering? Very little money is saved from SSR vs CSR, rather the lower data transfer saves everyone money and time.

[hansel_der]

> Very little money is saved from SSR vs CSR

this seems counterintuitive.

SSR means most processing happens on big iron inside a dc, this has to be more efficient than each user buying a new machine every few years just to have that peak js-perf needed for the latest frameworks.