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>Genuinely wondering, what flexibility do you get by not having an app server? Keeping the frontend and backend decoupled. Being able to host the UI anywhere t
by ramesh31 3y ago
>Genuinely wondering, what flexibility do you get by not having an app server?
Keeping the frontend and backend decoupled. Being able to host the UI anywhere that can serve HTML/JS and not have to worry about maintaining/monitoring another server. Deployments are just a CDN cache invalidation, not cycling a container somewhere. SSR is great if you're worried about SEO, but it's generally total overkill for most apps.
- willsmith72 3y agoI don't think it's overkill for most apps anymore. The performance gains are non-trivial and actually more of a reason these days for me to use SSR than SEO. I guess keeping frontend and backend decoupled is a matter of preference. I don't mind coupling my backend and frontend, and think it's a huge developer productivity gain to colocate components with data fetching. If you already need a server to serve data, I actually think it just makes sense to use that server also to serve html.