You can't JavaScript your way out of a JavaScript problem

A few months ago, Zach Leatherman wrote a great article outlining the various reasons why multi page apps (or, as I call them, “websites”) are superior to SPAs.

The whole thing is great, but this part really stood out to me.

Single Page Application frameworks in the last few years have pivoted away from client-side rendering to server-rendering and we welcome this improvement. However, the large starting size of client JavaScript bundles customary to SPA persist… You can’t JavaScript your way out of an excess-JavaScript problem. These large JavaScript bundles are costly to site performance.

You can read Zach’s whole article here. And if you want to learn how to build lightning fast multi-page apps, you should consider joining the Lean Web Club.