SPA is about providing an entire app by exposing a single physical web page containing an enormous javascript bundle. It breaks the original web paradigm in many ways. Surprisingly enough, we invest a lot of efforts to mimic the regular web behaviour. Isn’t time for modern frontend to reconsider the SPA approach?

1. Second guessing the
single-page-app
pattern

2. About me

3. KIP
Knowledge
Integration
Platform

4. “Second-guessing
the modern web”
Tom MacWright

5. SPA?
Spa?

6. Single page
+
Huge bundle

7. Why?

8. Better
interactions!

9. Inversing the
original web
model…

10. … but make sure
to imitate it

11. HATELOVE

14. “SPA isn’t stable,
or efficient”

15. No way back

16. Browser layer /
Content layer

17. SPA?
Take it or leave it

18. What do we
want?

19. Micro-frontend

20. No bundles

21. Proper layers

23. Generic browser
layer

24. Don’t code it
Plug it

25. Native

26. Thank you!
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Twitter @ebrehault
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