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andersmurphytoday at 5:28 PM1 replyview on HN

Is it slow though? Like in practice? This demo [1] using Datastar (a streaming HTML framework) every action including scrolling roundtrips to the server. Even the checkboxes changing colour is a roundtrip.

https://checkboxes.andersmurphy.com


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lucumotoday at 6:38 PM

The advantage of SPAs, like the checkboxes page, is that they can do the round-trip less visibly. The user can still continue the next thing. So even if it is slow, it's less of a deal than loading and rendering a page anew.

> Is it slow though? Like in practice?

The multi-page wizards? The ones I've seen were. Enterprise crap systems.