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by girafffe_i 947 days ago
I miss SSR JSPs. I worked on a b2b2c marketplace, the caching and performance of SSR for routine pages was a godsend. We also used a "widget" architecture pattern with reusable components.

We then hired a front end architect who replaced all widgets with react components, changed our checkout to full CSR React, our latency raised for all users, we lost 5% conversion on checkouts that never recovered, then the next step was to build a React service to help render the React, and moved CSR React to SSR React service.

We now have 2 teams to support this. I get there are a list of other tradeoffs but I really miss JSPs.