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I've been wondering about client side vs server side view rendering as well. I am used to working with server side MVC frameworks so rendering the view client side is a bit odd to me. Is the ability for the end user to see some of the view markup (conditional statements, loops, etc) an issue?

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Think of it like this: you still have model+controller at the server side (REST interface), the whole HTML+Javascript thing is the view layer. This view layer happens to be modeled using the MVC pattern, which is a pretty smart move if you are writing complex user interfaces.

For example, if you are mimicking a spreadsheet, it is very handy to have the presentation layer modeled in MVC instead of writing all the old-fashioned-jQuery-spaghetti-code way.

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