It's really good to see an article like this. IMO the pendulum has swung too far towards massive JS "applications" that force you to download MBs of content to

It's really good to see an article like this. IMO the pendulum has swung too far towards massive JS "applications" that force you to download MBs of content to render anything at all. Yes, if caching works things can be fast, but then you do things like release a new version of your software and I have to download it all again. I use Asana (and love it), but I hate the fact that it can literally take a minute to download their web application. Once it's loaded it's incredibly fast and one of the best web apps I use, but the performance loading it makes it really, really painful at times. Not to mention that based on their blog posts they've also found it difficult to program. And it's not just Asana, there are some very popular web applications that have had to make the same decision in order to reduce the time it takes to load things for their users, especially users who aren't on fast links (mobile, rural, and places like South America, Africa and Australia).