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Server-side rendering please save us.

• sah2ed 9y ago
  Well, there's now Chrome headless which is slowly edging out PhantomJS for such use cases.
  • mintplant 9y ago
    Are you suggesting running an entire web browser on the server-side just to render each client request to HTML? That VC money must really be flowing...
    • sah2ed 9y ago
      No. It's only needed to playback archives of web pages that only work with old JavaScript libraries enabled. But then again there's WebRecorder for exactly that. https://webrecorder.io/ https://webrecorder.io/
    • Arcsech 9y ago
      This article was posted on HN a while back suggesting exactly that: https://hackernoon.com/leaner-alternatives-to-server-side-rendered-ssr-react-c5492a6cb212?v=2 https://hackernoon.com/leaner-alternatives-to-server-side-re... It's just as ridiculous as it sounds.