This! The problem is also that as our apps grow the server side part of it and the client side part of it grow at pretty much the same rate. For each new functionality added on the backend we end up writing more UI code. This is a problem. We need start thinking of how a UI frontend can be implemented as a separate app completely independent and agnostic to the backend. To the extent that I can simple take the same frontend code and plug it to any compatible backend and things will just work. We need to develop a frontend client that can work with any backend (your app, my app, her app). The UI across all apps is mostly the same and we keep rewriting the same JS/HTML (albeit using different JS libraries) each time we build a new app. This is the problem. Let's start thinking of how we can build a general-purpose frontend client which doesn't work on low-level details (JS/HTML) but on higher level abstractions.