Publications de Mickaël Tricot

In the first part of this article, we talked about new front-end architectures, which consist of JavaScript Web applications using APIs provided by a back-end server: The new Web application architectures and their impacts for enterprises – Part 1. We saw that they recently emerged thanks to the increasing performance of browsers and the rise of industrialization tools for JavaScript development. In this second part, we will focus on: reasons why you should adopt these new architectures; opportunities they provide; impacts for enterprises.

Web applications evolve. From static HTML sites first to AJAX applications more recently, through multiple dynamic technologies (PHP, ASP, Java, Ruby on Rails…), Web application architectures and their dedicated tools regularly experience major advancements and breakthroughs. For two years, we have seen a new wave of technologies coming, transforming the landscape of Web applications. Unlike RIA or AJAX before, there is no well defined name yet for this new trend. We will call it "MV* client-side architectures". Here is the main principle: the server no…