[sl1ck731]

I didn't consider small static sites. I agree with that and have done some landing pages that way that stand in front of SPAs. I guess I was commenting on OP wanting to use Rails or Spring MVC for views instead of only using them for APIs.

I'm not sure what the term for it is, monolith maybe.

[nicoburns]

I believe the term would be "Server-rendered MVC framework". I think the argument for server-rendering is simply productivity. You can probably get stuff done about twice as fast if the use case fits the paradigm.