[TimMurnaghan]

One of the things that I've noticed about the javascript community is that they're re-inventing stuff from previous technologies - sometimes badly - but almost always with a willful ignorance of what has gone before.

While this doesn't look like a bad idea - what they've done is to re-invent stored procedures. Back in the original object orientated wars this turned out to be a mixed blessing. You could get quite sharp performance, but reasoning about the application logic became harder. It might be nice if this kind of issue was at least acknowledged in the article.

[dboreham]

I don't think this is what they have done. They've invented a client/server data model, schema definition and associated query language. Definitely wheel-reinventing, but imho a useful valid wheel which stored procedures were not. If it were like stored procedures the relay code would be running on the server. It runs in the client.