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Discussion on: NodeJS Server Side Rendering (SSR) - do we really need it?

 
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Matthias Andrasch • Edited

Thanks very much for sharing your thoughts on that, much appreciated!

Good point regards complexity of caching for SSR, have to dig deeper into this, no experience yet.

Maybe just one quick response to one aspect:

"But we are doing all this for speed right?"

Personally I'm interested in building robust, long term maintainable websites with good developer experience and following the "keep it simple"-approach as much as possible. Speed and performance (+ SEO, accessibility and sustainability) are key indicator as well of course. But I guess that depends on the area of work. Worked recently in a small agency dev team and having everything in one repo seemed to be a simple, maintainable approach - in contrast to all other setups. (Especially when the database is available as well - just like in PHP/MySQL webhosting - exactly what Vercel is now offering as combined product as well twitter.com/m_andrasch/status/1658... [vercels pricing model is debatable of course ;-)] Hope that more hosting companies will offer SSR in future, recently tested mittwald dev.to/mandrasch/hosting-nodejs-ss...)