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Yeah whenever these SPA-slamming posts come up, I just try to imagine carpenters posting about why they switched to hammers from screwdrivers. They're just different tools that excel at solving different problems.

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To use your analogy, what if a popular screwdriver company started a trend among young carpenters to use their screwdriver handles as hammers? And then large numbers of carpenters were driving nails with screwdriver handles instead of hammers?

That is where the SPA slamming is coming from.

It's not that people fail to grasp the concept of different tools for different jobs.

Exactly. 80+ % of all web dev jobs I see have some sort of SPA requirement

I'd guess that only about 20% need to be an SPA and the rest is cargo culting

As I said in a sibling comment, the problem is that some SPA-developers then see everything as one type of problem (I said nail there, but using your analogy, screw works better). Carpenters will tell you that screws aren't really superior nails - certain applications actually hold up better with nails (interesting enough for this analogy, those with a lot of side load, where screw heads may actually shear off)

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