It’s not just an idea. It’s tech that has been around for decades now. Rails, Django, Spring, Laravel, Sinatra, Flask and hundreds of others. They work fine fo

It’s not just an idea. It’s tech that has been around for decades now. Rails, Django, Spring, Laravel, Sinatra, Flask and hundreds of others. They work fine for a large chunk of modern websites. And server side templating is not the only concept from that era that is much simpler than what is popular now. Those frameworks were primarily synchronous instead of asynchronous. And they worked in pretty much every browser. Without breaking the back button. With shareable links. And no scrolljacking. For me personally the sweet spot for many applications/websites is still just that: A synchronous MVC framework with serverside rendering. With a sprinkle of vanilla JS or Vue on select pages for dynamic stuff.