[com2kid]

I wrote a blog post about this a few years back and got lambasted for daring to question the wisdom of SSR.

That same post still gets plenty of views from people looking up on Google if they should use SSR though.

Doing everything client side means scaling asset delivery is trivial. A potato running nginx can serve an absurdly large number of concurrent users fetching the same static payload.

Those backend apis need their own scaling story, and different types of APIs have very different scaling stories.

What doing some rendering server side and some client side can do is create confusion as to what is done where. (And with particularly bad settings even leak api keys, oops!)

[tarasglek]

I had dev who praised next, turned out he had no idea when his code ran on client or server.

[com2kid]

One leaked API key later, OpenAI bill goes brrrrr.