[midrus]

The moment you need SSR, you'd be in a better place if you were using just plain old server rendered (componetized) views, such as the ones you can do with laravel's Blade system, and do your client side interactions with Alpine and your server interactions with unpoly/HTMX.

SSR per se is not a "big problem", specially if using something like Next. The problem comes when you have to mix in translations, i18n, data fetching from external sources, authentication, cookies forwarding, etc, etc, etc... in my opinion complexity grows so exponentially that I don't see the advantage anymore.

I'm working on a project built with Laravel + Tailwind + Unpoly + Alpine and it is such a walk in the park to implement anything thrown at us. Although it is not "cool" tech, so some people around here don't want to work on it because they only want React all the things :-s