This is how I've always done web development. If you care about performance, instead of having an AJAXy API load JSON, you just load the data all in the page's

This is how I've always done web development. If you care about performance, instead of having an AJAXy API load JSON, you just load the data all in the page's controller and stuff it into a template. Nothing about this seems new or novel in any way. I have no comment on isomorphic javascript, I haven't figure it out yet. But this doesn't seem relevant. Am I curmudgeon?