Trying to hold sufficient session state on the server and then doing your work afar is a ridiculously hard problem to keep up. The controller of that distributed system is very far from what it's trying to work. State keeping from afar is not pleasant. Especially when there are little pools of state that are essential on that client, when the illusion being worked to maintain keeps breaking down.
A thick client page, that has the agency there, that can operate & control the local experience, is imo just so clearly a simpler system to build and run. It also often has much better performance characteristics.
Representative state transfer allowing the page to become the operator is simpler. Let the client be it's own thing. Give it tools to get and work that state, to update the remote server.
Sounds scary, sounds complex, is mechanically much simpler.
Trying to hold sufficient session state on the server and then doing your work afar is a ridiculously hard problem to keep up. The controller of that distributed system is very far from what it's trying to work. State keeping from afar is not pleasant. Especially when there are little pools of state that are essential on that client, when the illusion being worked to maintain keeps breaking down.
A thick client page, that has the agency there, that can operate & control the local experience, is imo just so clearly a simpler system to build and run. It also often has much better performance characteristics.
Representative state transfer allowing the page to become the operator is simpler. Let the client be it's own thing. Give it tools to get and work that state, to update the remote server.
Sounds scary, sounds complex, is mechanically much simpler.