[koonsolo]

Round trip to the server to compose your HTML feels less responsive. Else you could just do it in PHP anyway.

[brailsafe]

Surely you wouldn't just be server side rendering though. Nobody needs a page load for every route change necessarily. These are implementation details.

[azangru]

> you could just do it in PHP

That's two languages: javascript and php. Many frontend developers would prefer to just work with one — javascript.