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The web has moved to client rendering. But we still host the data on the server! Why?

• r3trohack3r 4y ago
  For most users, delegating data management and application updates to a 3rd party is worth paying for.
• waboremo 4y ago
  Funny you mention that! The web has shifted towards server rendering (again). Anyways, it depends on use case. It's not entirely an either or situation. Like Obsidian, the note app as an example (even though it doesn't have a web app version officially). It runs great locally, you manage all of that yourself the way you want. However, they also have a subscription to manage syncing for you, in which your data is hosted on their servers for multi device use.
• wwweston 4y ago
  The web has always been client-rendered UI. Markup is data. What's changed is the practice of pushing JSON instead to client-render to markup which the client then renders as UI. Whether this is an improvement is highly situational and probably somewhat subjective. What hasn't changed is that data management is often easier to let someone else think about, and that routing data between different client apps is often most easily and efficiently done with a single centralized intermediary.