The modern web development also turned into app development to emulate functions that is on the desktop applications. That is what is bring ing the complicity to the web.
Rise of the SPA is great. However, I think unless there is a good reason for having a SPA such as hybrid mobile app development, then there is no point of using SPA.
Normal server side web page rendering with latest modern version of jQueryish/Zapeto should be just fine for the non app type of web development.
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