HTMX - Rethinking the SPA

Rob King, a 25+ year full-stack developer and engineering lead at Lunit (formerly Volpara Health), traces the history of web development from classic server-side Multi-Page Applications (MPAs) like Active Server Pages to the rise of Single Page Applications (SPAs) around the 2010s. He uses his experience building SoundsNZ, New Zealand's first online music retailer, as an example of early MPA architecture. The SPA emerged as a solution to MPA limitations, promising to offload UI rendering to the browser while the server focused solely on data exchange.