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This is fantastic. todoMVC always lacked many features of standard apps, such as making an async request.

I wonder how fast a standard server side, non-JS version compares.

A standard server-side, non-JS version of the Hacker News front page? I feel like that's pretty easy to find.

0.2 to 0.7 seconds for me

How fast are the others for you? 0.7 seconds tell me nothing if you have the newest Razer Blade and a gigabit connection.

Good point. Others are indeed faster - 0.7 to 0.1 once cached (not sure why Chrome doesn't brake it).

I do have 802.11ac on 100mb fiber...

Right, but it should be benchmarked so that all requests originate from the same server so latency and other factors are not a problem.

Yep you're 100% right, that's something we've discussed [1] and definitely something we still need to do [2].