Lately there has been some interesting discussion about Modern Web.
I personally think that
- Single Page Applications (SPAs) have been (ab)used in places where a more traditional server side approach could have been a better fit
- SPAs require extra care (navigation, scrolling, accessibility, SEO, etc.)
- There are many SPAs that are not well crafted but when they are well made, SPAs can very much enhance the user experience
- The browser feels like the natural place where to handle complex UIs, not the Server
- As developers, I (we?) like to keep using my best tools to improve the Developer Experience
Related to the last point I feel that the Elm language come with a curse:
“Once you are in Elm, you want to stay in Elm”
This is not happening only with Elm, but with any compiled-strictyly-typed-inferred-immutable-purely-functional-with-nice-errors language.
So to alleviate some of these issues I made a small script to convert Elm SPAs into Statically Generated Progressive Web Applications (PWAs), called elm-starter.
(Yes, another one)
