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Okay so one huge difference between now and the late 90's is that we have several very popular ways to create "components" of HTML/JS/CSS. From react to livevie

Okay so one huge difference between now and the late 90's is that we have several very popular ways to create "components" of HTML/JS/CSS. From react to liveview it's very popular. This is important because it's much easier to maintain.

junon 4y ago
We did back then too. In fact we had SSR. It often took the form of CGI, like PHP - which, hate the language all you want, it has a very sane and scalable model.
- jozzy-james 4y ago
  and bi-directional data flow was done in the form on long polling. this sounds very much like a get off my lawn argument rather than anything rooted in reality of the now.
  - lenkite 4y ago
    Long polling has turned into SSE. And rocks with HTTP/2. What was once old is new and in vogue again!
    - jozzy-james 4y ago
      SSE isn't bi-directional, but sure - solves a bit of the long polling issue.
- krainboltgreene 4y ago
  It absolutely was not popular.
  - junon 4y ago
    What was not popular? PHP? Because that's... well, patently wrong.
    - krainboltgreene 4y ago
      No, componentized HTML.