I'm not sure what you are getting at. One of the core ideas with intercooler is to use HTML, not JSON, as your data transport, to get back to the original mode

I'm not sure what you are getting at. One of the core ideas with intercooler is to use HTML, not JSON, as your data transport, to get back to the original model of the web as described by Roy Fielding (REST/HATEOAS), rather than move more towards a JSON/RPC model. There are some good practical and theoretical reasons for doing this: http://intercoolerjs.org/2016/05/08/hatoeas-is-for-humans.html http://intercoolerjs.org/2016/05/08/hatoeas-is-for-humans.ht... http://intercoolerjs.org/2016/02/17/api-churn-vs-security.html http://intercoolerjs.org/2016/02/17/api-churn-vs-security.ht...