Ask HN: Why server side rendering is not used anymore
For an internal tool at our company that served a website with register schema of SOC (derived from IPXact XML's) we used an old tool written in perl that was very hard to maintain.
I took it upon myself to contact few software solution companies to rewrite the tool in a modern language and add few features.
All the companies dissmised server side rendering and suggest a server - client scheme based on NodeJS on the server and React / Angular on the client.
After proceeding with one of the companies, the end result was slow, very hard to maintain and every new feature was very highly priced.
We're in a worse situation than we were.
Was is a bad selection of technology for the specific use case ?
I took it upon myself to contact few software solution companies to rewrite the tool in a modern language and add few features.
All the companies dissmised server side rendering and suggest a server - client scheme based on NodeJS on the server and React / Angular on the client.
After proceeding with one of the companies, the end result was slow, very hard to maintain and every new feature was very highly priced.
We're in a worse situation than we were.
Was is a bad selection of technology for the specific use case ?