THE WEBSITE VS. WEB APP DICHOTOMY DOESN'T EXIST

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

The website vs. web app dichotomy posits that websites can be grouped into two categories: mostly static “documents” with little user interaction beyond following links (websites) and “applications” that involve rich dynamic behavior, needing JavaScript frameworks (web apps). There’s a spectrum between websites and web apps, and where a project sits determines which technologies are appropriate for building it. This post argues that such a spectrum is not conclusive and should be broken down more with axes spanning static/dynamic and online/offline.