This is a very controversial article for front end developers.

This is a very controversial article for front end developers. If you are an advocate of single page applications (SPAs) it should make you challenge your assumptions.

Even though this piece advocates for a particular backend framework, the front-end JavaScript toolkits that are talked about will work with any backend.

Client-server architectures are like a pendulum swinging back and forth with more emphasis given to one than the other according to the fashion cycle. Web architectures are no different and right now we are approaching peak SPA. Expect arguments like the ones in this article to get louder in coming years.

Concentration is a mathematical inevitability of a scale free network.

Concentration is a mathematical inevitability of a scale free network. The connections that allow a million shops from a thousand cities to compete on a global market are the same connections that mean they can all be replaced by a single shop operating from a single city.

The internet allows this to happen frictionlessly and rapidly but it’s no different to the consequences of normal competition under capitalism. Long term, competition always tends toward monopoly.