React and SPAs - Second-guessing the modern web

What if everyone's wrong?

The emerging norm for web development is to build a React single-page application, with server rendering

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The dream of APIs is that you have beautiful REST endpoints that align to each different table in your database or model in your business logic. That idea breaks down pretty fast.

Most interactive web applications start to triangulate on “one query per page.” API calls being generic or reusable never seems to persist as a value in infrastructure...

What if everyone's wrong?

The emerging norm for web development is to build a React single-page application, with server rendering

...

The dream of APIs is that you have beautiful REST endpoints that align to each different table in your database or model in your business logic. That idea breaks down pretty fast.

Most interactive web applications start to triangulate on “one query per page.” API calls being generic or reusable never seems to persist as a value in infrastructure...