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> Doing most of the work on the client instead of the server can often make scaling much easier.

I've also found that it results in a non responsive webpage. For instance, text taking multiple seconds to render in an input box (Slack, Facebook, amongst others) and times where the browser tab process ends up allocating a signficant percentage of system resident memory and/or CPU resources, which makes the computer itself slow to respond.



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