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by edanm
1035 days ago
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This is very wrong. For one thing, I don't think the motivation of Google and Meta was datacenter costs, though I could be wrong about that. But it's not that "VCs were pushing client-side SPA", it's that lots of the companies that wanted to build applications, found that they had a set of problems that was best solved by things like Angular. The state of the art before that for highly interactive client-side apps was JQuery, and for a few years, things like Backbone. Angular solved a real problem - people wanted to build more complex and more interactive client applications in a browser, but just using regular JS (or JS with Jquery) led to really messy applications and was very hard on development. You can try and handwave all that away as an echochamber, but I think the majority of the industry moved to SPA frameworks as solutions for building client-side apps. |
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Have you forgotten that these are profit-maximizing companies? Why do you think they do anything? To maximize profits. That is always the answer. If it doesn't maximize profits it's a mistake and they will back away from it.
So for example Facebook either thought that React would increase sales, or reduce costs, otherwise they wouldn't have created it. React hasn't moved the sales needle for them (why would it - they are an advertising company - React has precious little to do with selling more advertising). Ergo it was created to reduce costs. The cost benefit of moving all that compute out to the client is easy to demonstrate and significant for a company of that size.