Clientside rendering doesn't need to be heavy at all. In fact, you could do it with just $.getJSON('/api/users', function(data) { $('#users').text(data.content) }.
Sure, that requires jQuery, but most "normal" sites require jQuery, too.
And now your poor little mobile user has to wait for the page to download, then to execute javascript, then to wait for the API response, then wait for the DOM to update.
Or you could put it in the HTML, and then they just have to wait for the page to download.
For each new page on your site that your user loads, the benefit of single page apps becomes greater: Now she only has to load a bit of JSON, not a full page. So essentially single page apps are a tiny bit slower on the first page load, but much quicker on subsequent page loads.
rcsorensen|11 years ago
And now your poor little mobile user has to wait for the page to download, then to execute javascript, then to wait for the API response, then wait for the DOM to update.
Or you could put it in the HTML, and then they just have to wait for the page to download.
workhere-io|11 years ago