ASP.NET Core 2.0 Razor vs Angular/React/etc

Question

My team and I have received funding to start developing an Enterprise level web application (won\'t go into details of what it does). The application will have many separate we

Answer 1

By using Angular/React with API on the server-side:

• you eliminate the process of generating HTML on server-side and you save CPU
• API produces a small payload (JSON) and Razor (HTML) of course would be much larger in size, the constant full page reloads, and postback round trip, so API and SPA save bandwidth
• API and spa could have different versioning, scaling and deployment scenarios
• By using API you can support mobile app too and if you start with Razor you may need API in future

But by using Angular/React, you should be worried about clients:

• client must enable javascript
• client must have modern browsers
• client must have enough powerful hardware
• SEO