Question

I’m considering building a new web app with totally with static “html, js, css” file and

make asynchronous call (AJAX) to gain access to DB, some calculations and handle sessions.

So the static files will have basic DOM structures and css applied form only at the beginning

and static js code will asynchronously communicate with server to show page contents

dynamically.

What would be good and bad points of making a web app like this?

and do you recommend or not recommend this way of developing a web app?

Answer 1

I have built a a decent sized web site with this pattern. I feel that this is the current method of developing sites as there are no page post-backs. A fully AJAX site is more ‘Web 2.0’, if you will.

Debugging can be harder with this setup, but if you’re careful (which isn’t that hard to do with a brand new site), it shouldn’t cause you too much headache. I would recommend you go this route.