[ehayes]

Turbo[links], Stimulus, etc. ARE non-blocking background updates. It's HTML over the wire instead of JSON. [1] I don't think this is what you think it is.

[1] https://hotwire.dev/

[cpill]

since when is HTML lighter than JSON?! this use case was what propelled JSON into the mainstream.

[kawsper]

The argument is that it is lighter for the device just to receive static HTML, than it is for the device to receive JSON and build HTML templates.

[ymolodtsov]

The idea is that HTML is just slightly heavier but the advantage is you can render it on the server and don't need all that middleware and serialization layer.