• @danA
    link
    113
    edit-2
    4 months ago

    Anyone that builds a SPA and breaks opening in new tab or history caching and back/forward nav isn’t a good frontend developer (or lacks experience, which is something that’s fixable!). These have been solved problems for a long time.

    • EpheraOP
      link
      fedilink
      354 months ago

      I mean, for sure, and this meme isn’t trying to say that all SPAs are bad. But defaults matter, even for experts.

      This meme was inspired after I had to use an SPA, which among those points in the meme, also broke using Alt+Left to navigate back. The normal back-button worked (even if it then had to load for ten seconds to re-display static content).

      Which is just a typical example to me. You don’t even need much expertise to figure out why Alt+Left is broken. But you have to think of testing Alt+Left, because it’s broken by default.

      • The Octonaut
        link
        fedilink
        94 months ago

        My friend I’ve been using the Internet for 27 years and developing for it for most of that time and I can promise you I’ve never once hit Alt+Left

        • @NotJustForMe@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          104 months ago

          I have never heard of alt+left, and I’ve been using the Internet since Mosaic was all the rage. Shame on me, it seems to be implemented in all browsers. How could I have missed it?

          • EpheraOP
            link
            fedilink
            134 months ago

            It’s even implemented in many file managers and text editors and such. Pretty much the standard shortcut for navigating history. But yeah, hilariously it’s somehow also a rather well-kept secret.

        • EpheraOP
          link
          fedilink
          94 months ago

          Yeah, I have no trouble believing that. It took quite a while before I learned of this shortcut and when I did, I was wondering why I would ever want to use it.

          But I generally work from my laptop these days, without an external mouse connected, so reaching from my touchpad, the Left key is right there.

          • @Halosheep@lemm.ee
            link
            fedilink
            74 months ago

            Your reason for using it was exactly my question. “I have a mouse with a built in back button, why would I want to remove my hand from my mouse and navigate with the arrow key?”

            But your reason simply makes sense.

          • @llii@feddit.de
            link
            fedilink
            44 months ago

            You can probably go back by swiping two fingers to the right on the touchpad. Maybe it depends on the OS and browser.

            • EpheraOP
              link
              fedilink
              34 months ago

              Yeah, that works on my personal laptop, but not yet on my work laptop, because they insist on preinstalling an old, buggy OS. If that did work everywhere, I would probably be using that, but not breaking Alt+Left for whoever needs/wants it, would still be nice. 🫠

              • @llii@feddit.de
                link
                fedilink
                English
                34 months ago

                Ok, that’s unfortunate. But I agree, the browsers default keybindings really shouldn’t be broken it’s really annoying. I hate it when middle click doesn’t work with some web pages. 😒

                • I Cast Fist
                  link
                  fedilink
                  34 months ago

                  It really sucks when they break “open link in new tab”. I then have follow the stupid link, then middle click the back button to do what they broke.

        • unalivejoy
          link
          fedilink
          English
          64 months ago

          I started using alt+left when browsers started removing backspace. It was for the best.

    • @tsonfeir@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      204 months ago

      I’m guessing they aren’t using Vue, React, or similar, and they’re rolling their own for some reason.

      • @danA
        link
        214 months ago

        React doesn’t handle any of this stuff out-of-the-box; it’s just a UI library.

        • unalivejoy
          link
          fedilink
          English
          3
          edit-2
          4 months ago

          Neither does vue. You need vue-router, which is required anyway to make an spa with multiple pages.

          The only thing that breaks is any component state isn’t saved. But this can be fixed by rendering <RouterView> with <KeepAlive>. How to do this is mentioned in the documentation.

          I assume it’s similar with react and react-router-dom.

      • @Trarmp@feddit.nl
        link
        fedilink
        14 months ago

        I maintain a couple of Wordpress installations for clients, where new link targets are the same page, as you’d expect.

        They still, somehow, manually check “link opens in new tab”. I don’t know why some of these boomers are allowed to use computers, I swear.

        • @toastal@lemmy.ml
          link
          fedilink
          English
          24 months ago

          If you manage the WordPress installation, can’t you disable the ability or create/install a plugin that removes that ability? This hurts usability.

          • @Trarmp@feddit.nl
            link
            fedilink
            24 months ago

            I could, good point. I do disable plugins for clients so they can’t beat up their own website too much.

            Still, there are legitimate uses for opening a site in a new tab; e.g. when it’s an external website. I don’t think I should automate that, since there’s a granularity in there.

            • @toastal@lemmy.ml
              link
              fedilink
              -1
              edit-2
              4 months ago

              legitimate uses for opening a site in a new tab; e.g. when it’s an external website

              This is not a legitimate use—this breaks the default user agent behavior & completely removes the autonomy of opening in the current window (there are tons of ways to open in a new tab/window). Consider rechecking the article linked higher up the thread tree.

    • @Chenzo@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      34 months ago

      If your SPA website is done correctly the end user won’t even notice and none of the bad things listed in this meme happen.