I agree that the Google Groups example is much simpler when using PhantomJS, but I would argue that it would be an outlier. The SFO flights example is actually

I agree that the Google Groups example is much simpler when using PhantomJS, but I would argue that it would be an outlier. The SFO flights example is actually heavily over engineered, from quickly glancing over the XHR tab in Chrome Network tools it was pretty obvious that all of the data is actually located in this very nice JSON blob http://www.flysfo.com/flightprocessing/fullFlightData.txt http://www.flysfo.com/flightprocessing/fullFlightData.txt (I assume that the SF Flight Info was just meant as an example for the platform and as such the fact that it's already a JSON blob was just ignored for the sake of the example)