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Hey guys, looks pretty good. I'm interested in the decision to move to server side templating. You mention that the loading of js, then making an ajax call, then rendering the page, was slower than just serving up html. Did you guys try bootstrapping json data server side? That way you could avoid making an ajax request on load. Do you have any perf numbers to share?

Thanks!

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Author here. So, yes, bootstrapping the JSON on initial pageload would be a lot faster than waiting for the Backbone.Router to fetch it (for the Rails + Backbone approach). But therein lies the problem I was talking about: to bootstrap the data for a particular URL, but to also have the client-side request the proper data for that URL in response to a pushState event, you end up needing to duplicate the mappings from app URLs to API resources on the client- and server-sides, and you need to be able to access the same API on both sides as well.

We avoid this with Rendr by defining routes, controllers, models, etc in a way that can be run on both sides.

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