Or in a similar vein I remember Github making a mediumly big deal years and years ago about having no-reload moving between pages of the directory tree within a repo with... I think their library was called pjax? And it fetched some partial HTML from the server and updated a container, plus having some pushState/popState to make it work with browser history.
The most interesting part of it to me is that the mainstream has gotten so far out over to react and data payloads that the paradigm of "send some HTML and stick it in a container" is seen as revolutionary. Not to say that a well-designed library for doing this is a bad idea, just that... it's interesting to see how it's talked about.
I made some sites with Pjax. It was crazy fast and didn’t have the issues that React had. Back button works 100% of the time, users always had a working link to share and so on.
When I saw this I immediately had to search the comments for Pjax because the idea was quite similar.
I think the main problem was that heavy backends started to go out of style, especially C# ones that had good Pjax support.
The most interesting part of it to me is that the mainstream has gotten so far out over to react and data payloads that the paradigm of "send some HTML and stick it in a container" is seen as revolutionary. Not to say that a well-designed library for doing this is a bad idea, just that... it's interesting to see how it's talked about.