[woutr_be]

I was so used to building SPAs and APIs, that it seemed the default to me. But I always felt it was slowing me down, I had to switch between multiple terminals, multiple editor windows, things had to be tested twice (on both FE and BE). I dropped that for just plain old MVC on the backend, and I find myself moving a lot fast now. I still need some JavaScript for things like dropdown, or the occasional AJAX call, but other than that, I actively try to avoid it.

[NightlyDev]

This is very true for me too. I used Vue frontend and php backend, it makes it more fun to work on the frontend, but it's definitely slower for me compared to just rendering everything serverside.

The more I learned, the slower I became. I think everyone who has been doing webdev for some years have experienced that.

[woutr_be]

In my recent project, I try to do as much as possible through serverside rendering, obviously there are things that still require JavaScript. I just extract those out as components. Right now I’m using WebComponents, but you can easily use Vue if you wanted.

Just treat it as a secondary layer for HTML, not the primary one.