I would argue that if that's even a choice for you than maybe Angular isn't the best solution.
There are domains (like web apps) that really suit Angular, and rendering on the server simply isn't an option. There are content sites which should be handled on the server. Then there's the all the stuff in between. Admin for a CMS? You could go either way on that so you need to weigh it up yourself. These days I'd swing for Angular in that case because by the time you've loaded a single grid directive you have 50% of the system running.
The performance overhead swings both ways - it's not great to be dragging truckloads of html over the network to a mobile device either. Of course you need to test for your specific use case. I definitely get your point, and if you're building for mobile you'd want to do proper testing before banking on Angular.
One thing I would say is that I use Angular for my web app which deals with huge (million node) svg documents and performance-wise it actually deals with it really well (once you've optimised the bottlenecks into directives). From a code sanity point of view it's a life-saver.
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I would argue that if that's even a choice for you than maybe Angular isn't the best solution.
There are domains (like web apps) that really suit Angular, and rendering on the server simply isn't an option. There are content sites which should be handled on the server. Then there's the all the stuff in between. Admin for a CMS? You could go either way on that so you need to weigh it up yourself. These days I'd swing for Angular in that case because by the time you've loaded a single grid directive you have 50% of the system running.
The performance overhead swings both ways - it's not great to be dragging truckloads of html over the network to a mobile device either. Of course you need to test for your specific use case. I definitely get your point, and if you're building for mobile you'd want to do proper testing before banking on Angular.
One thing I would say is that I use Angular for my web app which deals with huge (million node) svg documents and performance-wise it actually deals with it really well (once you've optimised the bottlenecks into directives). From a code sanity point of view it's a life-saver.