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2012

Are there any performance drawbacks when rendering DOM views at runtime with JavaScript, rather than rendering server-sent HTML?

Yes, there is quite a significant impact on first-load performance. The browser has to pull down all of the linked scripts before it can display any content—if you’re using a library like jquery that’s a sizeable chuck of code that has to be loaded and executed just on its own.

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6:54 pm / 3rd January 2012 / javascript, web-development, quora, backbone

2010

Annotated backbone.js. Literate programming.

# 13th October 2010, 5:24 pm / backbone, javascript, recovered

Backbone.js. As should be expected for a DocumentCloud project, Backbone is a concise, elegant and educational take on the JavaScript MVC pattern. Depends on Underscore.js and plays well with jQuery.

# 13th October 2010, 5:23 pm / backbone, documentcloud, javascript, jquery, mvc, underscore, recovered

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