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by brimble
1505 days ago
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AJAX was originally about speed, but as soon as it changed from fetching and injecting HTML fragments, to fetching data (usually JSON) and performing a bunch of transformations and interpretations of it before finally modifying the DOM, it's been in practice slow as hell compared with traditional server-side rendering. |
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Doing everything on the frontend is great for making the UI feel responsive, but once you start grabbing large amounts of data from an API, manipulating it on the frontend while keeping it in sync with the server, you run into some major headaches very fast.