[mu53]

A lot of companies depend on search indexing from google and other platforms. E-Commerce, blogs, and trivial information websites all need their traffic to come from somewhere.

If you were going to dynamically render the page anyways, why not do it in node with the best UI framework out there right now?

The burden isn't that much when you put a caching CDN in front of it.

[boringuser2]

The things you've described do not require react.

[8n4vidtmkvmk]

What's a good template engine that isn't string based? Jsx and Jade are the only 2 I know. I guess you can use jsx without React if you want.

[boringuser2]

Ejs.

[erhaetherth]

Ejs is very much string-based.