You don't even need a fancy "send html fragments over the wire" approach to create a better user and developer experience.
Just sending full pages, server side rendered, like Hacker News and Wikipedia do is fine:
Going from the HN homepage to this topic we are on:
36 KB in 5 requests.
Going from the Wikipedia Homepage to an article:
824 KB in 25 requests
Going from the AirBnB homepage to an apartment listing:
11.4 MB in 265 requests.
Going from the Reddit homepage to a Reddit thread:
3.74 MB in 40 requests
In comparison to AirBnB and Reddit, HN and Wikipedia feel blazingly fast. And I am sure the developer experience is an order of magnitude nicer as well.
Just sending full pages, server side rendered, like Hacker News and Wikipedia do is fine:
Going from the HN homepage to this topic we are on:
Going from the Wikipedia Homepage to an article: Going from the AirBnB homepage to an apartment listing: Going from the Reddit homepage to a Reddit thread: In comparison to AirBnB and Reddit, HN and Wikipedia feel blazingly fast. And I am sure the developer experience is an order of magnitude nicer as well.