🔗 Problems I no longer have by using server-side rendering

I really like to use Spring Boot, Thymeleaf and htmx for a productive web application stack. However, most of my day-to-day work involves writing REST API backends (Well, JSON Data APIs really) for Angular or React frontends. During that work, I sometimes can’t help but think “We would not have this issue we are discussing now if we had used server-side rendering instead of a JavaScript Single Page Application.”. This blog explains some of those thoughts in more detail.

I admit that for most of these things there are solutions, but the point is that in many cases, you don’t really need those solutions as the problem does not exist in the first place. The main goal here is to have people think about what technology they choose to build a web application and the consequences that come with that choice.