Parts of this thread make me feel like I'm on crazy pills. We are currently doing SSR everywhere and it absolutely works in all the weird bleeding edge use cases that are traditionally parroted as reasons for outsourcing your ownership over technology. This isn't some historical, nostalgic experience for us. It is life today.
The propaganda being fed into this industry is impossible to navigate in 2023. The best I can do is to find other engineers who still see things my way and team up with them. I am so grateful to have a few of these on my team right now.
To be clear - Client-side rendering has its place. A perfect example of this is WebGL. But, this is extremely niche when you consider the total space of all business. PHP-style development is still untouchable for 99% of line-of-business web applications. String interpolation on the server was always the answer. Will continue to be the answer until some dystopian organization(s) decide to make it impossible to do things this way.
The propaganda being fed into this industry is impossible to navigate in 2023. The best I can do is to find other engineers who still see things my way and team up with them. I am so grateful to have a few of these on my team right now.
To be clear - Client-side rendering has its place. A perfect example of this is WebGL. But, this is extremely niche when you consider the total space of all business. PHP-style development is still untouchable for 99% of line-of-business web applications. String interpolation on the server was always the answer. Will continue to be the answer until some dystopian organization(s) decide to make it impossible to do things this way.