Awesome Anti-SPA

A list of links critical of the single-page app pattern.

The balance has shifted away from SPAs (2022) by Nolan Lawson

There’s a feeling in the air. A zeitgeist. SPAs are no longer the cool kids they once were 10 years ago.

In defence of the single page application (2022) by William Kennedy

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What I wish I had known about single page applications (2021) by Michael Pratt

Single page apps are all the rage today, but they don't always operate the same as traditional web pages.

Have Single-Page Apps Ruined the Web? (2021) by Rich Harris

SPAs solve problems to the traditional approach, but are still problematic.

Second-guessing the modern web (2020) by Tom MacWright

We’re layering optimizations upon optimizations in order to get the SPA-like pattern to fit every use case, and I’m not sure that it is, well, worth it.

You probably don't need a single-page application (2019) by Uku Taht

All of this means that single-page applications impose more complexity and cognitive load on the developers.

Help! None of my projects want to be SPAs (2019) by Jason Goldstein

The Preact stuff is kind of fun. But it feels like adding a lot of complexity, and I can’t pin down how it benefits most of these projects.

Single Page Application is not a Silver Bullet (2018) by Seva Zaikov

the problem is that nowadays pretty often question is not “to SPA or not to SPA”, rather “which client-side framework should we use for our SPA”.

The Architecture No One Needs (2018) by Greg Navis

Single-page apps are all the rage nowadays. Many praise their vague technical benefits while ignoring tremendous development costs.

Create your own dysfunctional single-page app in five easy steps (2018) by Jim Newberry

Single-page web applications damage businesses.

Why you should not build your start-up as Single-Page Application? (2017) by Hubert Łępicki

I have heard many statements from SPA advocates, that turned out to be false promises in reality. Ideas, that sound great in theory, but somehow never work in practice.

Why I hate your Single Page App (2016) by Stefan Tilkov

My main beef with single page apps, or SPAs for short, is that they’re not “on the web”. In that regard, they are very similar to a SOAP web service.

The disadvantages of single page applications (2014) by Adam Silver

Many people think SPAs provide faster and better experiences but in reality they create a slower, unfamiliar and inaccessible experience. Worse is that they’re harder to make in the first place.

Are Single Page Apps Bad? (2013) by Alex Tatiyants

I do agree that using SPAs for everything is not ideal.

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