William Gross

I have spent my entire career (thus far) building and maintaining line-of-business web applications for various organizations. I am not the fastest at building new apps, but I’m one of the best at managing complexity and I care deeply about continuous adaptive maintenance (which costs money but can save you from…

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SPAs are harder and always will be (2013)

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There's quite a lot of talk these days about Single Page Applications  (SPAs) and the terrific user experience they deliver. This is great, and the SPA architecture is probably a good fit for many apps, but I want to point out two reasons why SPAs are harder to develop and maintain than tr