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If it's an "application" there are no "pages" as that's an old (very old) and deprecated construct. Now if it's a "web site" with a collection of "web pages" - that's another matter. I've been building commercial SPAs now for over 20 years and I can say with much authority that users prefer "applications" over "web sites" for complex business management tasks.

I've also built some pretty huge static web sites (longwoodgardens.org for example) and it an absolute joy to do those as well. I would never recommend to such a client that they build an SPA.

So I'll state this opposing view - that "web sites" were a mistake when used for complex business applications.



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