Yes and no, the terrible attempts to build a new front-end are, but the old front-end that runs on python with Pylons (I believe) as it’s “front” isn’t.
I like react, and I love typescript, but sites like Wikipedia, old.Reddit.com, stackoverflow, hacker news and so on are nice showcases of how you should never be afraid of the page reload, because your users won’t be unless you’re building something where you need to update screen states without user inputs. Like when your user receives a mail and can’t just reload the page because your users input would be lost if you do so. I think this last part is the primary reason (along with mobile) that Reddit has been attempting to move to React, because the “social” parts like chats and private messages don’t instantly show up for users in the old front-end. Unfortunately they haven’t been very successful so far.
You probably can scrape their current or their new.Reddit front-ends since you can scrape SPAs, but it’s much, much, easier to scrape the old.Reddit front.
Don't know to be honest. I assume new reddit is while old reddit isn't. Truth is the job is even easier in case of an SPA: you just need to use whatever internal APIs they built for themselves. Can't add idiotic restrictions to that without affecting the normal web service.
