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The days of work needed to set up server-side rendering? I realize I must look stupid saying this, because when you know your tech stack inside out the setup m
by dancek 8y ago
The days of work needed to set up server-side rendering?
I realize I must look stupid saying this, because when you know your tech stack inside out the setup might be 15 minutes instead of days. But a large proportion of developers only learn to do things when they have to, and so you learn server side rendering the first time you have a customer willing to pay for the time it takes you to learn.
- EpicEng 8y agoAnd conversely they would also have to learn these JS frameworks, right? Something like Angular is far harder to master (and debug) then server side rendering.
- dancek 8y agoOf course, but time is limited and there's a huge number of things to learn. So my point about a customer paying the cost of learning SSR may be moot, but someone has to pay it. I also assume the ease of implementing SSR is highly dependent on the backend tech stack. My guess is that only Node.js makes it relatively easy.
- tboyd47 8y ago"SSR" is the default behavior of most pre-2016 web frameworks. Only when ReactJS became hip did it appear on lists of nice-to-haves that people weigh the pros and cons of.
- dancek 8y agoYes, I'm talking in the context of SPA frameworks (which the article referred to).