Re: A Responsive Single Page App (SPA) with 3 Issues to Consider

Totally agreed. With today's state of the art, the game is not worth the candle.

My bet would be that in a few years time there will be new solutions that are cheaper, quicker, easier, and have way more flexibility.

This is a new paradigm, so either give up all else and commit to this and fly on the leading edge or hang back and take a sleigh ride on the crest of the wave. Either way works but trying to do both usually ends with soiled underwear.

In my opinion.

On 8/4/2015 12:42 PM, Kelly Cookson wrote:

One thing I have grown to dislike about having a single page app is browser caching. I make changes to the files used for content within the single page app, but I often have to clear my browser cache for the changes to show up.

Add this to the fact that users cannot add particular "pages" to their browser favorites. A favorites link always takes the user to the home page.

I'm guessing there are methods for getting around these issues. If this were going to be a large website that a business had to spend money to maintain, or a website used by tons of people where maximum performance was a necessity, then I would probably do more research to resolve the above issues. I definitely see the maintenance and performance benefits of single page apps.

But this is just a hobby site and unlikely to be used by many people. I don't mind spending time on it because, well, that's what hobbies are for...spending time. So I'm going back to making it a traditional web site with multiple HMTL files.

The link http://www.socialhope.info/code/SocialHope_REBOOT.zip will continue to have the source code for the single page app version of the website, for those who find this thread in a search or simply want to download the code later.

Kelly Cookson
IT Project Leader
Dot Foods, Inc.
1.217.773.4486 ext. 12676
kcookson@xxxxxxxxxxxx