Building single-page web applications with Ruby on Rails - Selleo Blog

Building single-page web applications with Ruby on Rails - Selleo Blog:

There are certain advantages to making the client thin and delegating all the data processing, such as, for example, rendering appropriate HTML and/or JavaScript, to the server. For instance, it is easier to develop and deploy web applications where almost the entire code runs on the server. The disadvantage of frequent server access is that your thin-client single-page application is as fast as the network connection between the client and the server. So, just as the user experience was affected by page redraws, it is now limited by the request/response scheme . Having taken an action in the system, the user is presented with spinners or flash messages like “work in progress…”, rather than immediate results. Some say that single-page apps could take another step forward and make the interfaces completely non-blocking. The interactions should be resolved instantly, without...

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