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@feross This is not an inherent fault of SPAs. It’s fault of code organization and lack of tools/culture of code splitting.

@feross Again, modern SPA frameworks let you render initial state into HTML. JavaScript code is an enhancement over that.

@dan_abramov I get that you can make things really nice with extra effort. But should this be the default recommendation for every app?

@dan_abramov Would you recommend that Wikipedia switch to React since you can do initial rendering in HTML and rehydrate it?

@feross No, until React is so good that it’s easier to do this than implement server rendering. My hope is that in 15 years we’ll get there.

@feross Cognitive cost, tooling overhead *today*. That is what we are working on :-). This is why I say improve rather than give up.

@dan_abramov pretty sure @feross is trying to say (or at least i would argue) that wikipedia has nothing to gain from switching to react

@sebmck @feross Got it now, yep. I thought this is “SPAs are bad tech direction” rather than “SPAs are not ready yet” kind of argument.