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by midrus 1864 days ago
Even if you are talking about SSR such as how Next.js does it, you wouldn't be spanning processes from your ruby/php application. You would deploy it as a separate application responsible of the frontend, using your ruby/php application as a backend service providing an API.

An alternative is to just serve the HTML from your ruby/php and then take over in the frontend, but this is more complex and not worth it in my opinion.

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> An alternative is to just serve the HTML from your ruby/php and then take over in the frontend

This is still incredibly common for apps that are mostly server rendered but use React/Vue etc "sprinkled" through the codebase for more complex bits of UI.