[morrvs]

For what it's worth, the study was not targeting SPAs specifically. The patterns I found can very well be used to add some minimal behaviour to some HTML generated completely on the server side. I'm by no means advocating SPAs or client-side rendering for each and every use case.

[dreamcompiler]

Understood. I do appreciate the effort you put into this and the fact that you built it from scratch. FWIW your example has convinced me to explore client-side rendering now that I know it doesn't require a monster library.