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> There has to be a good majority of us here that has worked on something complex that required SPAs here, no?

You can still create a something complex without using any of the common SPA techniques, instead you can use things like Hotwire, Livewire, htmx instead.

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not practical for hiring.

and although I find it intriguing that hey.com is using Hotwire, it's still insignificant compared to some SPA framework's ecosystems.

Performance isn't an end all be all, otherwise we should make another article and say "Python and PHP was a mistake for web servers"

There is some give to be had for the sake of practicality.

I'd say it is very practical for hiring, as you will need just 1 or 2 developers that knows JavaScript and (Rails|Laravel|etc..) for every 4 or 5 you'd need otherwise (some that know JS, some that know backend, and some to coordinate/manage them).

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