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But, if I can be honest, solutions such as Hotwire or Livewire are not as snappy as a SPA.

I personally prefer InertiaJs [1], which is some kind of front-end router system with its state synced with the server in an "old style" fashion.

[1] https://inertiajs.com

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I don’t know what SPA’s you have the pleasure of using, but most SPA’s I’m subjected to are an exercise in molasses like interactions and loading spinners.

Yeah, they are building SPAs incorrectly by relying on something like `react-query` which is waterfall rendering land. People don't truly understand the sacrifice they are making by using `react-query`. It isn't designed for large scale SPAs, it's designed for small sites that just need to fetch a little data.

I can’t help but feel, if SPA’s keep getting “built wrong”, then at some point, we ought to look at why people keep building them wrong.

I agree, most SPA's are very poorly designed. But others work so well that you don't even notice it. Random examples: Gmail, Notion.

> Well designed > gmail

I too, enjoy satire.

Why? Gmail is one of the most used webapps in the world, surely it shows its age, but it's doing its job pretty well, and way better than all the other commercial webmail clients I've tried.

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We're also using Inertia in a pretty large project and we're super happy with it.

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