It really depends on what you call CRUD, but for instance, in the past, I've had frontends hiding the crud behind more "friendly" gestures. For instance, a write such as rescheduling a sale could be done with drag&drop, reads would feed a local store of events/sales that could be browsed either as a workweek panel of which sales are happening, or as a monthly calendar aggregating sales and showing which day is a "hot" day and which day is quiet and needs more blockbusters to drive sales. Add in search features, graphs of forecasted sales and a news feed on the sales a specific user was managing.

It's not that complex or fancy compared to what can be found in b2c, but it's not just a crud where users are directly tasked to update values in fields either. And yes, it could have been a crud, but I believe our users would have been worse off.

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skydhash 3 days ago | parent [-]

You can have interactivity within a single form, whithout having a whole app code humming in the background. And with the drag and drop example, I often see designers missing the obvious accessibility issue where the user can’t use a mouse.

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pyrale 3 days ago | parent [-]

So you’d need to select a sale, enter a change form, select a new date and validate the change. As opposed to moving the item on your planning.

Accessibility issue is a good point, but the accessible way doesn’t need to be the only way.

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skydhash 3 days ago | parent [-]

> So you’d need to select a sale, enter a change form, select a new date and validate the change. As opposed to moving the item on your planning.

That's pre-javascript workflow. You can have your DnD without making your app an SPA. And why not have the DnD and the more complete change form?

	▲	pyrale 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		You're mixing two things here: having an app with more than just CRUD interactions, and making that app an SPA. My point was giving an example of an app that's a bit more featured than just some forms in a CRUD interface, not that you can only do that with a SPA. > And why not have the DnD and the more complete change form? It was, in fact, what we did.