I love this technique. It's how I built this image gallery for my daughter's website https://www.zadieheimlich.com/easter-2016/

Didn't use PageAccelerator or Instantclick or Turbolinks. It's just jQuery. Here is the source https://github.com/kingkool68/zadieheimlich/blob/master/js/p...

I like this way over a client-side JavaScript framework app approach because... 1) It fails gracefully if JavaScript is unavailable 2) I can keep most of the logic on the server side since the JavaScript is only fetching an HTML page and parsing for content 3) It's fast :)