It's slower to first load and usable application on the client side.
If we were to take two web apps, one using a rendr-style-render-on-server approach ( https://github.com/airbnb/rendr ), and one using a blank-html-bootstrap-through-js approach, the rendr-style app will win out for time-to-first interaction.
To take a specific example, loading the monocle home page gives a base html time of 355ms for me. setup.js takes another 570ms.
All told, it's an initial load of 355ms vs 970ms. Or "close to instant" vs "is something wrong? oh no, it's good".
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It's slower to first load and usable application on the client side.
If we were to take two web apps, one using a rendr-style-render-on-server approach ( https://github.com/airbnb/rendr ), and one using a blank-html-bootstrap-through-js approach, the rendr-style app will win out for time-to-first interaction.
To take a specific example, loading the monocle home page gives a base html time of 355ms for me. setup.js takes another 570ms.
All told, it's an initial load of 355ms vs 970ms. Or "close to instant" vs "is something wrong? oh no, it's good".