I'm tracking a bunch of competing technologies that have moved templating and binding to data (from the server or not). I suggest through a series of blog entries, that it is a paradigm shift.

All of these are about shifting templating logic from the server side to the client side, without have a crazy amount of JavaScript. The concept suite internal apps, or apps that require login best, as presently search engines are not indexing dynamic pages too well.

I like the set on the left, and dislike the set on the right. I'm very comfortable with the templating amongst regular HTML, and they generally have less JavaScript. I'm not missing the JavaScript that doesn't have to be tested.

To some degree, my patronage of Angular and Knockout flies in the face of a parallel agenda around "UI Markup Nirvana":/ui-markup-nirvana which I wish to see flourish. While HTML and the DOM are still prevalent, I am tracking both.

My blog entries on this class of JavaScript app

• June 10^th, 2016 » New Enterprise Web-App Design Choices for 2016
• May 19^th, 2013 » Coming to Angular from something else
• April 28^th, 2013 » When Agile meets Angular and UX-led development
• March 6^th, 2013 » A better Slideshow App, using Angular
• February 15^th, 2013 » Slideshow HTML App, using Angular
• February 8^th, 2013 » Angular Instead of Media-Queries
• January 18^th, 2013 » Client-Side MVC Roundup
• January 8^th, 2013 » Perforce as a datastore, with Client-Side MVC
• January 6^th, 2013 » Visualizing the Client-Side MVC race
• October 31^st, 2012 » Angular for Designers.
• April 13^th, 2012 » The Shift Towards Client-Side MVC
• April 12^th, 2012 » Performance Testing Knockout, Angular and Backbone with Selenium2
• April 9^th, 2012 » Testing Knockout and Angular with Selenium2
• March 15^th, 2012 » AngularJS and Selenium (Again)
• March 12^th, 2012 » The Importance of Design-Mode for Client-Side MVC
• March 3^rd, 2012 » Replacing JQuery With Angular
• February 14^th, 2012 » Client-Side MVC: browser plugins
• February 13^th, 2012 » Client-Side MVC frameworks compared
• February 10^th, 2012 » Client-Side-MVC applications : best practice (part 1)
• February 8^th, 2012 » The document is the single source of truth
• February 6^th, 2012 » Web-app model quandary
• February 6^th, 2012 » Previous Web Architectures
• February 1^st, 2012 » Angular and Selenium
• February 1^st, 2012 » Angular and DreamWeaver
• January 29^th, 2012 » (almost) No JavaScript prototyping with Angular in a single source file
• January 23^rd, 2012 » UI Technology Paradigm Shift
• February 27^th, 2011 » Introducing Story Navigator
• September 28^th, 2009 » Angular - HTML based Declarative UI (also one to watch)