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Stateful vs stateless front end #17

Open rudolfbyker opened 8 years ago

rudolfbyker commented 8 years ago

@krokkie and I debated whether the front end should be stateful (all content lives at one URL) or stateless (the state of the program is fully described in the URL), but I don't remember much. We should write down the pros and cons here for future reference.

Things to look into:

Related discussion: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1177422/in-what-scenario-is-stateful-better-than-stateless-for-the-web

Keep in mind that "stateful" and "stateless" mean different things with respect to the server and to the client, which makes this discussion awkward…