Are web apps fundamentally different than web sites?

Our debate format returns! Divya & Feross take the “Nope” side while Amal & Nick represent the “Yep”s. Whose side will you take?

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Featuring

• Jerod Santo – Twitter, GitHub
• Divya – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Feross Aboukhadijeh – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Amal Hussein – Twitter, GitHub
• Nick Nisi – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Notes and Links

Previous episodes of YepNope:

• Should websites work without JS?
• Is modern JS tooling too complicated?
• Should we rebrand JavaScript?

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