Firstly, the application I was talking about[1] didn't have real updates. Secondly, no one stops you from doing incremental updates with HTML except they way y

Firstly, the application I was talking about[1] didn't have real updates. Secondly, no one stops you from doing incremental updates with HTML except they way you design your data structures and UI. In fact, HTML has something that JSON doesn't. Semantics. This means you can create a generic setup for incremental updates based, say, on element IDS. --- [1] https://hackernoon.com/10-things-i-learned-making-the-fastest-site-in-the-world-18a0e1cdf4a7 https://hackernoon.com/10-things-i-learned-making-the-fastes...