For sure. I was always uncomfortable with JS frameworks that used markup with no content from the server. In my professional experience I've also found that dev

For sure. I was always uncomfortable with JS frameworks that used markup with no content from the server. In my professional experience I've also found that developers underestimate how slow Ajax requests are in real world scenarios. I wrote some comments on this when I started learning React, just gonna screenshot them instead of pasting: http://i.imgur.com/XSnCqjK.png http://i.imgur.com/XSnCqjK.png Two great articles I reference in this tutorial: 1) http://tomdale.net/2015/02/youre-missing-the-point-of-server-side-rendered-javascript-apps/ http://tomdale.net/2015/02/youre-missing-the-point-of-server... 2) http://rauchg.com/2014/7-principles-of-rich-web-applications/ http://rauchg.com/2014/7-principles-of-rich-web-applications...