>Wow, the modern PHP community is on fire! I had no idea. I basically rage-quitted PHP years ago, after repeatedly inheriting a series of Wordpress wrecks. The

>Wow, the modern PHP community is on fire! I had no idea. I basically rage-quitted PHP years ago, after repeatedly inheriting a series of Wordpress wrecks. There still are Wordpress wrecks, and will be until the end of time. But there's a lot of good PHP code being written now, it's going through somewhat of a renaissance. Lots of good work being done with Symfony. >Just curious, how does a PHP application handle server side rendering? By shelling out to a headless browser? What if the content is so personalized that server side caching isn't helpful, is it still viable to SSR a React client? I haven't done SSR for React with PHP, but this react library [0] runs v8js, so it's not as heavy as a headless browser. The Angular2 team is building SSR for PHP now but hasn't released it. From scanning the GitHub issues it looks like they're taking the same approach (v8js) [1]. [0] https://github.com/reactjs/react-php-v8js https://github.com/reactjs/react-php-v8js [1] https://github.com/angular/universal/issues/281 https://github.com/angular/universal/issues/281