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by nawgz 1106 days ago
He means API calls, obviously overloaded the term "function calls" a bit

In this case, I think it's also clear that most things you'd call an "application" abhor this behavior, which is why heavy clients are so popular, and small shops without frontend engineering talent are making a big push away from heavy clients which raises all the hubbub about HTMX etc
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resoluteteeth 1106 days ago
> He means API calls, obviously overloaded the term "function calls" a bit

No they literally meant generating html like h1() rather than <h1></h1> in something like jsx templates

(I initially wasn't sure if they were talking about the model of server side rendering with client side events passed back to the server through a websocket either though)

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Izkata 1106 days ago
No, he meant function calls as opposed to JSX, clarified in another comment.
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uhtred 1106 days ago
> He means API calls, obviously overloaded the term "function calls" a bit

lol, no he doesn't

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