[ljm]

You kind of get it out of the box with plain old HTML though. Once you get into SPA territory you’re reinventing a lot of wheels to get back to parity, or replacing native functionality with JS alternatives.

Consider multi-page forms: how many SPAs just store all of that in memory and then make one request at the end? Without JS, the BE would be saving the state for each step so you could come back to the form later or refresh without losing anything.

[bufferoverflow]

You can easily store intermediate state in sessionStorage or localStorage and prevent all the unneeded requests to the server just for moving between steps.

[truculent]

Yes, hence why it’s good advice.