> Personally, I'm on the fence about using server side rendering (which PHP is pretty good at) versus just writing RESTful APIs, because browsers now have fetch

> Personally, I'm on the fence about using server side rendering (which PHP is pretty good at) versus just writing RESTful APIs, because browsers now have fetch API built in which makes consuming them easy (no need for jQuery or necessarily even something like Axios). That depends on the target website (or web app), but as a web visitor, I usually dislike having the stuff rendered client-side, it always feels slower. Also, for content-based websites, I like when JS is optional.