We did… in arguably the dumbest way possible… it’s getting slightly better now as frameworks innovate on various ways to improve SSR … but when SSR first starte

We did… in arguably the dumbest way possible… it’s getting slightly better now as frameworks innovate on various ways to improve SSR … but when SSR first started being a thing it was literally stuff like “how do I run a j entire desktop browser, headless on my web server (or wedged in between with weird reverse proxy setups…) to pre-render the page HTML using the my Client side JavaScript of my single page app because I want to do things that my client side only framework wasn’t designed to do” It wasn’t universally that bad but at its worst it was totally this bad.