I think the happy place is somewhere in-between. Use JS to allow the user to build up a request/form (basically DHTML circa 2000), but use one of these hypermed

I think the happy place is somewhere in-between. Use JS to allow the user to build up a request/form (basically DHTML circa 2000), but use one of these hypermedia frameworks when interacting with the server. I think that these are successfully showing that BFFs were a mistake.