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By "full-stack" here I mean frameworks which handle both the frontend and backend simultaneously, in a seamless way. The closest thing framework that I remember from the MVC/P era which attempted this was Meteor.js, but it was really horrendous to use in my experience.

Otherwise, it was very common practice to serve an Ember or Angular app as static files Nginx or directly on a CDN. Wrapping them in a server-side framework was always a bespoke process which required you to effectively maintain two frameworks, and stitch them together yourself (unless you count Ember + Rails in the early days, but even that is a stretch IMO). When SSR was introduced in any framework, it was usually not used to its full potential to be able to accomplish the use cases I discuss in the post, like authentication, API endpoints, etc. It was just used to render the app on the server. It did not fundamentally change the DX of the framework.

I honestly was pretty skeptical of these latest frameworks until I gave them a shot! It doesn't sound that revolutionary until you actually start using them, and things which were previously quite difficult become absolutely trivial. I highly recommend trying them out some time.