I am surprised that many of the big sites are just now getting around to moving away from the server side frameworks for UI. The benefits of doing so are just so great that I am surprised that they ignored it for so long. Flattening the web stack makes development rapid again, UI engineers can stub out JSON files to emulate the REST back end and iterate through bugs so much faster. At many of the companies that I have implemented new style web front ends out TCO dropped significantly. I guess it's telling of the times when you are more shocked to find out that people are just now doing as opposed to the fact that they are doing it.
As well I enjoyed the article, I have not used dust.js yet so it was interesting to see how it works. Dojo has a good templating model and I tend to prefer it over some of the other offerings, it is good to see that others are getting into the space. Though I do prefer Dojo's widget based templating over standard tiles type templateing, I find that it makes the code more compartmentalized and reusable. More of a black box, where code and template can just be added to a page and it works.
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I am surprised that many of the big sites are just now getting around to moving away from the server side frameworks for UI. The benefits of doing so are just so great that I am surprised that they ignored it for so long. Flattening the web stack makes development rapid again, UI engineers can stub out JSON files to emulate the REST back end and iterate through bugs so much faster. At many of the companies that I have implemented new style web front ends out TCO dropped significantly. I guess it's telling of the times when you are more shocked to find out that people are just now doing as opposed to the fact that they are doing it.
As well I enjoyed the article, I have not used dust.js yet so it was interesting to see how it works. Dojo has a good templating model and I tend to prefer it over some of the other offerings, it is good to see that others are getting into the space. Though I do prefer Dojo's widget based templating over standard tiles type templateing, I find that it makes the code more compartmentalized and reusable. More of a black box, where code and template can just be added to a page and it works.