Jakob Lind

Full stack developer and independent consultant.

Compared to serving data on page load?

Advantages

Disadvantages

Added code complexity. Need extra API endpoints, frontend code to do the ajax call, etc.
More difficult to write automated test

Emil Moe

Senior Data Engineer

"No need to refresh the web page gives a better user experience"

This is actually not true, a lot will find it more user friendly when there's a page load because they are used to so.

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