Originally published on subhanfarrakh.com/blog
The Problem with SPAs for Content Sites
Most portfolio sites don't need React to render a headline. Yet most developers — myself included — reach for a React SPA by default. The result is hundreds of kilobytes of JavaScript shipped to the browser before a single word of content appears.
I spent two years running my portfolio on Next.js. It was fine. But every Lighthouse audit told the same story: a content site weighed down by a full SPA runtime.
Enter Astro
