I dont think you are listening what he is saying. The vercel sql library is serverside javascript. This could be any language. What the library reinvets is pattern that has been criticised, hated and laughed at not that long ago. Especially in this form of raw sql mixed in between html.

It was specifically the react/you-must-have-api crowd who bashed PHP bacause of this.

I guess in the end PHP was what people wanted all along.

The Vercel SQL library doesn't mix raw SQL and HTML. It can't, since that'd easily allow public db access on the frontend.

What people wanted was the speed of a server-rendered starting point and the flexibility and performance of client-side templating and interactivity. JS/React can deliver this, PHP cannot.

Wow i just said that it is server side javascript because you were claiming ... and that its mixing raw sql with html template like what was hated in PHP. Have you even looked at https://vercel.com/storage/postgres - its right there in their example.

You are either trolling me or you are not really sure how these things work?

You could do that with PHP backend + any frontend framework during the last 2 decades before.

OK, now you can do it using just one JS framework i guess? But is it a revolution? A breakthrough?

You couldn't do that before. Combining a PHP backend and a frontend framework meant you had two different html templates.

Thats not true. You had one .php file (or more, if you use includes) where everything was located: the HTML, if necessary any JS via <script> and interspersed with <?php … ?> depending on what dynamic stuff you wanted to output.

And this is parsed to one output file that is sent back to the browser.

What are you event talking about? Are you aware that any touring completel language can output JSON... what two different html templates?