Yeah, I found myself on that bandwagon for a short time when Meteor came out. Very fun to work with, and the SPA idea is very attractive. But it adds a lot of complexity and some other issues that normally don't happen on server-rendered websites, and there are little pieces of different projects that can be made interactive without going full-blown SPA.
Building everything as a SPA
Yeah, I found myself on that bandwagon for a short time when Meteor came out. Very fun to work with, and the SPA idea is very attractive. But it adds a lot of complexity and some other issues that normally don't happen on server-rendered websites, and there are little pieces of different projects that can be made interactive without going full-blown SPA.
100% this!