Context is the king

Most applications developed on top of a traditional web stack, including Angular, were designed with the assumption that the majority of users will access it from the context of a desktop web browser. This was the assumption made for many years until the iPhone was introduced on June 29, 2007 by Apple. The iPhone was the first truly "smart" phone, which means that it had a full-featured Safari web browser and other web service integrations. It seems that the term "game changer" was invented to honor products delivered by Apple, and the iPhone was no exception. Websites (and everybody else) at the time were seemingly taken by surprise, and the discussion on how to optimize existing websites for this new mobile device context began, a discussion that is still alive today.

Since 2007, we have learned from the trials, errors, and successes of web developers that have vetted out the pain points and best practices that we all should follow today. The Internet...