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by ryanbrunner 899 days ago
Does SSR make React a MPA? If "MPA" limits us to only frameworks that have to do a full browser navigation for every interaction, it's a pointless discussion - "MPA" frameworks have had these sorts of optimizations for a decade+ (Hotwire is the newest, but there was Turbolinks before that and PJAX before that). Sure, I'll agree that React is a better approach than using the 2005 version of a framework, but that's not useful.

Architecturally, you'll still designing your application as though the user is performing a complete navigation, there's just Javascript present to optimize away some of the issues with that approach.