[gwbas1c]

> Having client state just be a replica of server state solves so many problems I don't understand why the concept never caught on.

As soon as your server state is larger than whatever your client can handle, the whole metaphor breaks down.

[ralusek]

I'm assuming that the client state would be a lazy representation of the back end state, that only pulls data as needed. The result being that local and server state must both be treated only as asynchronously accessible.