A masterful rant about the shit state of the web from a front-end dev perspective

There’s a disconcerting number of front-end developers out there who act like it wasn’t possible to generate HTML on a server prior to 2010. They talk about SSR only in the context of Node.js and seem to have no clue that people started working on this problem when season 5 of Seinfeld was on air2.

Server-side rendering was not invented with Node. What Node brought to the table was the convenience of writing your shitty div soup in the very same language that was invented in 10 days for the sole purpose of pissing off Java devs everywhere.

Server-side rendering means it’s rendered on the fucking server. You can do that with PHP, ASP, JSP, Ruby, Python, Perl, CGI, and hell, R. You can server-side render a page in Lua if you want.

  • David GerardMA
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    246 months ago

    for the sole purpose of pissing off Java devs everywhere.

    ah ah ah! it was written to piss off Visual Basic devs everywhere

    • @selfA
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      166 months ago

      javascript spits in the face of lisp and common sense every time it evaluates, and that’s a lot of spit