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0 pointsstack_framer4mo ago0 comments

I find myself just wanting to go all the way back to SPAs—no more server-side rendering at all. The arguments about performance, time to first paint, and whatever else we're supposed to care about just don't seem to matter on any projects I've worked on.

Vercel has become a merchant of complexity, as DHH likes to say.

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farley134mo ago

I think the context matters here - for SEO heavy marketing pages I still see google only executing a full browser based crawl for a subset of pages. So SSR matters for the remainder.

yawaramin4mo ago

Htmx does full server rendering and it works beautifully. Everything is RESTful–endpoints are resources, you GET (HTML) and POST (HTTP forms) on well-defined routes, and it works with any backend. Performance, including time to interactive and user device battery life, are great.

robertoandred4mo ago

SPAs can still be server rendered.

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