SPAs should just die out. As a user the experience virtually always means slow loading, large downloads, and more fragility.
Seeing a loading spinner makes me cringe.
Seeing a loading spinner makes me cringe.
Usually with any website which involves booking tickets, if I see it's a SPA I think there's a good chance that the company spent some effort on this and therefore care and it's likely to work OK.
If it's a server-rendered forms type application, I almost expect it to be poorly implemented, be frustrating to use or fail completely.
My suspicion is that, because these server-rendered forms type frameworks are very mature and much easier and faster to build something with, they are the go to option when budget is low, i.e. when quality is not a priority, and I think that may explain the correlation I've seen. Nothing to do with the underlying technology of course.
That’s reversed for websites & apps for small companies and startups. In those cases, SPAs tend to feel fragile, buggy, and full of weird defaults and unusual behavior, especially compared to the relative simplicity of a basic form with some JS sprinkles.
No idea why that is, or if the perception is even accurate.