[hermanradtke]

> Some react devs literally don't even know that HTML can be rendered server side.

Sadly, many do. Only later do they realize it is orders of magnitude slower than rendering a template and more cpu intensive. Combine that with the fact that node.js prefers to have an IO heavy workload, but instead we get a cpu heavy one.

React is fine, but SSR has a long way to go before it is “good”.

[philipwhiuk]

"Server-side-rendering" confused me for ages because I figured it must be some new fancy tech instead of 'what PHP has done from the beginning'.

SSR isn't actually rendering anything of course.

[tiagod]

In the context of React it makes sense, as traditionally it's a client-side rendering thing. Until recently, a redundant render would run in the client once the js is loaded anyway, but I believe it's possible to skip that now.