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Panic at the SPA


Single Page Applications have taken the web by storm, but are they really all they're made up to be?

I learned React late, it became appealing to the young and stary-eyed me who found out about GitHub Pages, free hosting (yay), and got tired of jQuery, .NET, and PHP in 2020. React’s design of effects, and how components and hooks interact with one another in general, sets no unsuspecting developer up for success in this cruel and unfortunate world where memory leaks do in fact exist. I’m not saying that these tools are exactly the worst things to happen to this universe, but giving developers (a naturally lazy species) a shorthand ( npm i) to add external dependencies to their applications might be a close second.

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