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by lsalvatore 1701 days ago
I come from a financial reporting background where pages needed to be dynamic and update through filters / sorting / etc- think Excel or Robinhood- these are applications, not pages. When you are building an application, users don't want to experience a page refresh. You either want a dynamic behavior without page refresh, or not. React Router gives you client-side routing- I don't know why you wouldn't want that even if you were building something like AirBnB where there is mostly static content- to argue against dynamic search and filtering without page refresh seems silly to me.
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Yep exactly this. I even just used Coinbase Pro vs. Vanguard in another thread as a concrete example of application vs. website where the Vanguard approach would really suck for an actual trading application.