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Smart Clients vs Smart Servers: The epic client-server battle of our time

11:10 - 11:40, 7th of October (Friday) 2022/ DEVTRENDS STAGE

Watching recent trends in client-server paradigms, from Apollo GraphQL to React Server Components to Rails Hotwire, one thing keeps coming up:

They’re all abstractions over transport layers like REST!

Why do webdevs keep trying to kill REST?

What are the implications for UX and DX?

When should we pick one over the other, and will there be a clear winner?

LEVEL:
Basic Advanced Expert
TRACK:
Front-end
TOPICS:
Javascript Front-end SoftwareEngineering

Shawn Wang

Airbyte