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The term “server-side rendering” was in common usage when people started implementing client-side rendering more commonly in the late ’00s and early ’10s. But i
by chrismorgan 5y ago
The term “server-side rendering” was in common usage when people started implementing client-side rendering more commonly in the late ’00s and early ’10s. But in the last five years or so, the term has been appropriated by the isomorphic rendering crowd so that “SSR” or “Server-Side Rendering” normally means server-side isomorphic rendering (that is: server-side operation of something that’s primarily designed for client-side rendering), and there’s no standard term any more for pure server-side rendering, though if you write it lowercase it probably means the old-school technique.
- arethuza 5y agoIs it really fair to call something that is used so widely by major sites "old-school"?
- chrismorgan 5y agoSure. “Old-school” does not imply “obsolete”, but evokes more a sense of traditional ways. (This is the way it’s been used for a couple of hundred years or more.) I think it’s the right word, and used it deliberately.
- arethuza 5y agoFair point - I think I was being over-sensitive there :-)
- fuzzy2 5y agoCan’t say I ever heard it outside the context of SPAs, certainly not in the past. Back then you just had dynamic websites or dynamic content.