alt Hacker NewsCan't the website be literally static HTML for 99% of it? I don't really see any user defined input that would change the output.
It's really fast, and seems fine, but is it just static pages? If not, why not. That's the question most front end devs don't ask themselves enough.
> I don't really see any user defined input that would change the output.
I feel like the distinction between static websites and SPAs has been lost in the last decade, despite it being in the name _single page application_.
The point of SPAs is not "it's more interactive than a static website is", but "I don't need to fetch the new page and wait it to load as I navigate". You can have any custom behavior just by adding JavaScript. That's something we have from 30+ years.
"applications" don't interrupt the user as you navigate, and we tried to replicate that on the browser, by having history and render JavaScript controlled.