The web development world has been trending toward a Thick Client. This article is a call back to the Thin Client and centralizing all logic in the app server.

The web development world has been trending toward a Thick Client. This article is a call back to the Thin Client and centralizing all logic in the app server. Most devs are still used to the Thin Client approach, so there is a productivity benefit to remain where you are familiar. However, you can have just as many or more productivity enhancing libraries and practices in client side javascript as in the server side rails-like frameworks.