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by Retr0id 817 days ago
Having no logic in the front-end sounds nice, but how well does it deal with an imperfect network connection? If I have 500ms ping, does that mean I have to wait 500ms for each UI interaction?
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It has WebSockets so it at least avoids TCP/TLS connection overhead.

But yeah, that's the downside of any thin client.

What do you mean? WebSockets require a TCP+TLS connection in most cases, unless you're using HTTP3