You are not building this for yourself if you need to be indexed by google. You need to build in a supported way.
The bigger question is why you think an spa should rank well in general. It's only one page.
This isn't everyone.
The comment I replied to said that Google should "delist client side rendered web pages", which is a terrible idea. Maybe I'm OK with the SEO hit? Maybe I've architectured my SPA so that it can be indexed? (At least to some degree)
> The bigger question is why you think an spa should rank well in general. It's only one page.
SPAs can have multiple pages (despite the name). Check out react-router [0]. Browser history can be manipulated to give the same "back button/forward button" functionality between logical pages. This is done for you by whatever framework you use.
For my use case, having the browser reload every time a page is changed would severely interrupt UX.
[0] https://reacttraining.com/react-router/web/guides/quick-star...
This is a beautiful part of the new web: indexable applications.
Spoken like someone who hasn't used the web in 5 years.
My work has powered some of the sites you've visited over the last 5 years. I hope you've enjoyed the experience.
Still doesn't make a spa worthly of ranking well in general.. unless it's really a useful app with actual functionality instead of a shallow one page website.
Reply with some sites you made that you feel should rank well. Let's see how they hold up.
You seem to suggest that a SPA can only consist of a single `view`, when in fact there's often no discernible difference apart from the underlying architecture. Maybe we need a new word, so people stop getting confused. SPA has nothing to do with the amount of content or views a website has.
It's just as simple to create a shallow, useless website in PHP as it is in React.
That’s called appeal to authority. It’s a logical fallacy. Your statement was false, regardless of how “authoritative” you are on the subject. If you meant something else by your statement, you should have expressed it better.