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server side rendering is the mess people will inherit in a few years. I can already see the HN posts: "I rage-quit X because of all the mess I inherited where

• jnbiche 9y ago
  > so they just added so much abstraction they had to use hacks to pre-render it on the server" Actually, you have that exactly backwards. It's only because of React's abstraction of the DOM that it's even possible to render using a simple JavaScript interpreter running on the server side. You do understand that server-side rendering is not (typically) necessary, right? I mean, React will render just fine initially on the browser, of course. It's only done (wisely) on the server before serving to the client for performance reasons.