D For A Web Developer

[Adam D. Ruppe via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 30 April 2014 at 13:47:11 UTC, Ola Fosheim Grøstad 
wrote:
> You might dislike this, but I think nimble servers and clean 
> separation with javascript heavy clients are the future.
>
> What I don't want:
>
> - I have started to avoid server processing of forms, 
> javascript/ajax gives better user experience.

I don't really agree, I do as much work as I can on the server, I 
like the AJAX stuff to be as stupid simple as setting innerHTML. 
(Indeed, web.d's automatic javascript has helper functions for 
this: Server.getSomeData(args).useToReplace(some_element); )

It makes it a lot simpler and gives good compatibility since the 
client is pretty thin.

> - I avoid advanced routing, it adds little and leads to harder 
> to maintain code, give me a regexp based routing table in one 
> location binding request-handlers.

aye, I think routing is generally ridiculous.

> - Server side generation should be kept minimal, prevents 
> caching.

That's not really true. You can cache individual parts on the 
server and in some cases, cache the whole page on the client too.

Of course, doing things on the server may not need to be cached 
anyway because you don't have the lag of a million http requests 
in putting it together.