I used to think the same thing until I considered that single page app development is really just a reinvention of thick clients. When you look at an SPA as a

I used to think the same thing until I considered that single page app development is really just a reinvention of thick clients. When you look at an SPA as a thick client state management is a natural thing as it was in Java swing and WPF and Windows forms and other stacks beyond my knowledge