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visarga on July 21, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Browsers are pretty good at loading pages

It's justified if you run a web app that needs to maintain complex state between clicks, such as a text/graphical editor.

lucb1e on July 21, 2019 [–]

I don't think anyone disputes that. Maintaining a whole editor state in server side sessions or re-rendering everything from localStorage would be rather silly indeed. This is about changing pages, such as Github annoyingly does when browsing a repository.

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