I don't think it really matters how the DOM information gets to the client. What is more important to me is how much of the state is kept on the client and how

I don't think it really matters how the DOM information gets to the client. What is more important to me is how much of the state is kept on the client and how complicated it is to synchronize with the state on the server. I've found the most elegant "patterns" to be ones where the server maintains virtually all of the state, with the client operating more-or-less as a dumb terminal.