Question

I’m starting a web application that interacts with many web services. I ask you what do you think about calling these web services with javascript.

My Opinion:
Vantages:
– bandwidth savings (server-side)
– no client-server communications (for only reading operations)
– what else?

Disadvantages:
– code readable
– what else?

Answer 1

Server side:

• Caching is simpler
• no need to worry about malicious JSON
• no same-domain restrictions.
• every request has more network latency

Client side:

• fewer application layers
• doesn’t introduce more network latency when accessing the api
• requires client-side templating, or sending data back to the backend