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The article seems a little misleading. Using turbolinks won't make your site slower than not using turbolinks. Even the people in a café in Prague will enjoy improved speed over a full page load. The point of the article is that a JavaScript MVC framework could make your site even faster. Fair enough, but I fail to see how that's a flaw in turbolinks. By that logic it's pointless to make any speed improvements unless we write our backend in assembly.

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> Using turbolinks won't make your site slower than not using turbolinks.

No, but it encourages a style of development that makes you rely much more on the server side speed than you should. That is the major flaw I was trying to bring attention to.

The general sentiment was supposed to be: interested in turbolinks? Well take a look at THIS first.

Client Side MVC frameworks are certainly not all about speed - they have other advantages such as great organization of your Javascript code, API first development, etc.

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