ISTM you need to strike the right balance. The ideal is that you have a static site and fetch data using JS -- this is good because it's simple. Most pages do

ISTM you need to strike the right balance. The ideal is that you have a static site and fetch data using JS -- this is good because it's simple. Most pages don't have a lot of data, and if there is data and its dynamic, then JS is needed to make the app responsive. On the other hand, if you have content that you could be fetching using JS but it's desirable to have it rendered every time you land on the page, then yeah, you want to render it server-side.