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> the root cause of every bad Single-Page-App isn’t that it’s a Single-Page-App.

The root cause of https://vector-of-bool.github.io/ scrolling incorrectly when navigating between pages isn't due to bad management or lack of care, it's because it's a single page app that didn't handle scrolling correctly (which a browser would provide for free), and the author didn't notice despite coming in with good intentions.

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It gets even muddier when you consider the fact that MPA transitions will be in browsers hopefully quite soon and you will be able to achieve the exact same effect.

https://developer.chrome.com/blog/shared-element-transitions...

That's the point of the article though. SPA is /hard/. Using a normal many-page app, you get scrolling that works across all browser - even mobile - for free, without having to do anything. I'm not saying I necessarily agree, but that's what this article is about.

> Single-Page-Apps can be fantastic. Most teams will mess them up because most teams operate in dysfunctional organisations.

I don't think the vector-of-bool website, and the broken JS transitions, were designed by a dysfunctional organization (or an organization for that matter) (though the author has suffered from burnout: https://vector-of-bool.github.io/2019/05/23/signals.html).

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