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slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

The promise of frontend frameworks was that a local snapshot of the app's data model would be faster to operate on than a server round-trip.

This is a measurable question, and for nearly every class of app, the reality is that you should keep your data on the server and send partials to innerHTML if you want "interactivity".

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• The spectrum of data model locality & session depth. Almost no apps have deep enough sessions to justify local data models, which means the frameworks designed to work from them are dangerously redundant. (remote)