There are 3 different kinds of web applications: * smart front end, dumb back end. This is the SPA model * dumb front end, smart back end. This is the old scho

There are 3 different kinds of web applications: * smart front end, dumb back end. This is the SPA model * dumb front end, smart back end. This is the old school model * smart front end, smart back end. This is the new school model If you can get away with the SPA model, by all means do it. Liveview is not going to challenge that. What it is doing, is to give new live to the old school model so you can avoid the complexity of having both a smart front end and a smart back end for a large percentage of applications. A smart/smart system is an asymmetric distributed system, a beast to handle for gurus and novices and everyone in between.