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by dpistole 1141 days ago
From a front end perspective I think the selling points I see pitched for these new server side frameworks are "SEO" and "speed".

SEO I personally think is a questionable motivation except in very specific use cases.

Speed is almost compelling but the complexity cost and all the considerations around how a page is structured (which components are server, which are client, etc) does not seem worth the complexity cost IMO. Just pop a loading animation up in most cases IMO.

I think I'm stuck somewhere in the middle between old-hacker-news-person yelling "lol were just back at index.html" and freshly-minted-youtube-devs going "this is definitely the new standard".