Ask HN: Best JavaScript Single Page Apps

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8101133

by binaryanomaly • 12 years ago

8 11 12 years ago

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What are the best SPAs (Single Page Apps) you've encountered so far?

I'm looking for good examples to demonstrate business the potentially better experience with an SPA over classic server side produced html pages.

Complex examples would be preferred over simple ones.

tzaman2• 12 years ago

shameless self-promo: https://app.codeable.io (our startup). We have rewritten the whole app in AngularJS (with Rails API).

matiaspenas• 12 years ago

Dont send us to a sign-in page without knowing what you do.

https://codeable.io/

tzaman2• 12 years ago

That was deliberate, because you can't see the app unless logged in, but can see the source

thatha7777• 12 years ago

GMail is a single-page app that popularized rendering on the browser/AJAX in many ways.

hdra• 12 years ago

Trello https://trello.com

brianchu2• 12 years ago

Facebook, Twitter, Asana. Interestingly, each developed their own JavaScript libraries/frameworks - React, Flight, and Luna (Luna is not open-source).

Others: Google Maps.

I don't find Gmail to be a particularly good example, unfortunately.

binaryanomaly2• 12 years ago

Thanks for the examples with frameworks. Still looking for more good corporate sites with Angular or the likes...

brianchu2• 12 years ago

Two salient examples of Angular include: Amazon's AWS dev console (not the best example of Angular, but the only public use by a large corp I know of), and Lift's web app (lift.do).

I also know that Apple uses Angular for a few internal (non-public) developer tools/consoles.

Angular is a framework, heavier than the other frameworks too. Twitter and Facebook are particularly good examples because they use both server and client-side rendering, so they get the best of both worlds (fast initial page render and fast subsequent client renders). I love Angular, but Angular can't do this currently.

oever• 12 years ago

Another self-plug: WebODF and ViewerJS. Editor and viewer of OpenDocument Format files respectively. 100% client side. http://webodf.org http://viewerjs.org

marcomassaro• 12 years ago

http://getflow.com

backbone + rails

Ask HN: Best JavaScript Single Page Apps

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