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There are a bunch of very popular web development frameworks where pretty much all the functionality comes from the javascript. Angular and React are some of th

• majewsky 9y ago
  I can sorta kinda understand that you would use something like that for a rich web application, but this is literally a blog post. It doesn't get any more static than that.
• root_axis 9y ago
  one of react's differentiating qualities is that it can render the entire page on the back-end, so there's no reason for the page to fail if the user does not run javascript.
  • giobox 9y ago
    Whilst this is often true, not all React code will render server side. You need to take care to make sure your React code stays isomorphic, which usually lasts right up to the point you discover some third party React component you reused would require significant rewriting to support server side rendering. That's how my personal projects usually end up anyway!