I wrote about this exact topic last week at https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/server-side-templates-vs-rest-api-and-javascript-front-end https://nickjanetakis.com/

I wrote about this exact topic last week at https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/server-side-templates-vs-rest-api-and-javascript-front-end https://nickjanetakis.com/blog/server-side-templates-vs-rest.... The TL;DR is, the classic web development model still works amazingly well today and you can get real-time aspects by sprinkling in Javascript where needed.