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Server-side views are resource hogs. Client-side MVC is not SEO friendly and throws non-JS (or crappy) browsers away.

My bet would be both, but I couldn't find any framework that could render both server and client side templates based on the HTTP headers without enormous amounts of glue code.

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I was writing something to do this a while back actually. Just recently AirBnB wrote about it as well: http://nerds.airbnb.com/weve-launched-our-first-nodejs-app-t.... They're using Backbone on both the client and server to accomplish what you're talking about. I haven't seen a complete framework that does this yet though.

I did something similar using Blade (https://github.com/bminer/node-blade) which is a great client and server-side templating engine, but it wasn't as smooth as I would've liked.

I guess we'll have to wait (or do-it-ourselves).

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