>When you produce your HTML on the server side, on the other hand, the developer creating that HTML can have full access to the data store and take advantage of, for example, joins and aggregation functions in SQL stores.
This article is surreal. It feels like I just woke up in the year 2003. Why are we actively promoting old architectures that were abandoned for very good reasons?
If your use case requires SSR for some reason, then sure. But the vast majority of SPAs are an order of magnitude more efficient to work on than the old paradigm of PHP/JSP/ASP/Whatever server pages (i.e. what things like htmx are reinventing, but this time in JavaScript!).
This article is surreal. It feels like I just woke up in the year 2003. Why are we actively promoting old architectures that were abandoned for very good reasons?
If your use case requires SSR for some reason, then sure. But the vast majority of SPAs are an order of magnitude more efficient to work on than the old paradigm of PHP/JSP/ASP/Whatever server pages (i.e. what things like htmx are reinventing, but this time in JavaScript!).