The author is reinforcing the false dichotomy between using front end frameworks and hand-rolled JS, as if rendering data from JSON APIs is the only way to display information from the server.
Almost as an aside, he says
> Server Side Rendering is also no better, because while they can do certain things in more straightforward way, they break browser behaviour [...]
but he provides no examples or supporting evidence, so it's difficult to know what browser behaviour he's referencing. "SSR" is just how the web has worked since the beginning and it works very well. Maybe he's specifically talking about SSR as provided by Next? I've never used it, so I'm not sure what browser behaviour it might be breaking.
The author is reinforcing the false dichotomy between using front end frameworks and hand-rolled JS, as if rendering data from JSON APIs is the only way to display information from the server.
Almost as an aside, he says
> Server Side Rendering is also no better, because while they can do certain things in more straightforward way, they break browser behaviour [...]
but he provides no examples or supporting evidence, so it's difficult to know what browser behaviour he's referencing. "SSR" is just how the web has worked since the beginning and it works very well. Maybe he's specifically talking about SSR as provided by Next? I've never used it, so I'm not sure what browser behaviour it might be breaking.