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Critiques of various tech trends.

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# Awesome Tech Skeptics

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This is a list critical of various tech trends.

## Single page applications

**[SPAs were a mistake](https://gomakethings.com/spas-were-a-mistake/)** (2022) by [Chris Ferdinandi](https://gomakethings.com) 
 > Most developers do it wrong, and for the ones who do it right, it results in a ton of extra code to recreate features the browser already gave you for free.

**[Are SPAs better than MPAs?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivLhf3hq7eM)** (2022) by Jake Archibald and Surma 
 > Surma and Jake have a discussion, weighing up the benefits and drawbacks between Single Page Apps (SPAs) and Multi Page Apps (MPAs).

**[The balance has shifted away from SPAs](https://nolanlawson.com/2022/05/21/the-balance-has-shifted-away-from-spas/)** (2022) by [Nolan Lawson](https://nolanlawson.com) 
 > There’s a feeling in the air. A zeitgeist. SPAs are no longer the cool kids they once were 10 years ago.

**[In defence of the single page application](https://williamkennedy.ninja/javascript/2022/05/03/in-defence-of-the-single-page-application/)** (2022) by [William Kennedy](https://williamkennedy.ninja) 
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**[What I wish I had known about single page applications](https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/12/28/what-i-wish-i-had-known-about-single-page-applications/)** (2021) by Michael Pratt 
 > Single page apps are all the rage today, but they don't always operate the same as traditional web pages.

**[Have Single-Page Apps Ruined the Web?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=860d8usGC0o)** (2021) by [Rich Harris](https://twitter.com/rich_harris)
  > SPAs solve problems to the traditional approach, but are still problematic.

**[Second-guessing the modern web](https://macwright.com/2020/05/10/spa-fatigue.html)** (2020) by [Tom MacWright](https://macwright.com)
  > We’re layering optimizations upon optimizations in order to get the SPA-like pattern to fit every use case, and I’m not sure that it is, well, worth it.

**[You probably don't need a single-page application](https://plausible.io/blog/you-probably-dont-need-a-single-page-app)** (2019) by [Uku Taht](https://twitter.com/ukutaht)
  > All of this means that single-page applications impose more complexity and cognitive load on the developers.

**[Help! None of my projects want to be SPAs](https://web.archive.org/web/20190211133112/https://whatisjasongoldstein.com/writing/help-none-of-my-projects-want-to-be-spas/)** (2019) by Jason Goldstein
  > The Preact stuff is kind of fun. But it feels like adding a lot of complexity, and I can’t pin down how it benefits most of these projects.

**[Single Page Application is not a Silver Bullet](https://blog.bloomca.me/2018/02/04/spa-is-not-silver-bullet.html)** (2018) by [Seva Zaikov](https://blog.bloomca.me/)
  > the problem is that nowadays pretty often question is not “to SPA or not to SPA”, rather “which client-side framework should we use for our SPA”.

**[The Architecture No One Needs](https://www.gregnavis.com/articles/the-architecture-no-one-needs.html)** (2018) by [Greg Navis](https://www.gregnavis.com/)
  > Single-page apps are all the rage nowadays. Many praise their vague technical benefits while ignoring tremendous development costs.

**[Create your own dysfunctional single-page app in five easy steps](https://tinnedfruit.com/writing/create-your-own-dysfunctional-single-page-app.html)** (2018) by [Jim Newberry](https://tinnedfruit.com/)
  > Single-page web applications damage businesses.

**[Why you should not build your start-up as Single-Page Application?](https://www.amberbit.com/blog/2017/9/20/why-you-should-not-build-your-startup-as-spa/)** (2017) by Hubert Łępicki
  > I have heard many statements from SPA advocates, that turned out to be false promises in reality. Ideas, that sound great in theory, but somehow never work in practice.

**[Why I hate your Single Page App](https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/why-i-hate-your-single-page-app-f08bb4ff9134)** (2016) by Stefan Tilkov
  > My main beef with single page apps, or SPAs for short, is that they’re not “on the web”. In that regard, they are very similar to a SOAP web service.

**[The disadvantages of single page applications](https://adamsilver.io/blog/the-disadvantages-of-single-page-applications/)** (2014) by [Adam Silver](https://adamsilver.io)
  > Many people think SPAs provide faster and better experiences but in reality they create a slower, unfamiliar and inaccessible experience. Worse is that they’re harder to make in the first place.

**[Are Single Page Apps Bad?](http://tatiyants.com/are-single-page-apps-bad/)** (2013) by [Alex Tatiyants](http://tatiyants.com)
  > I do agree that using SPAs for everything is not ideal.

## GraphQL

[GraphQL kinda sucks](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32366759) (2022)

[GraphQL makes your public API equal to a generic database](https://mobile.twitter.com/jmhodges/status/1522385068974432256) (2022)

[GraphQL is a trap?](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31284846) (2022)

[Why you shouldn't use GraphQL](https://web.archive.org/web/20220804231217/https://blog.logrocket.com/why-you-shouldnt-use-graphql/) (2021)

[Why I am giving up on GraphQL (kinda)](https://www.abhaybhargav.com/why-i-am-giving-up-on-graphql-kinda/) (2020)

[Criticisms of GraphQL](https://medium.com/@CBowdon/criticisms-of-graphql-45e847a0bace) (2019)

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