Ask HN: Why the web lately is all about JavaScript?
by Existenceblinks on Hacker News.
I read https://ift.tt/6chNs7q recently and feel quite frustrated because now everyone is rendering html using javascript. I’m on twitter reading web stuff, when they talk about “SSR” (server-sided rendering), 99% of the time it means javascript based server. Why these trying-to-be-innovation lately aren’t not working with backend languages like python, ruby, elixir, go, rust etc? I have an SPA app that is quite sophisticated whose WHOLE app size is ~110kB minified, and when I look at react-dom on https://ift.tt/TvnOPjQ it’s 130kB minified which sounds CREAZY to me compared to my whole app (no, it’s not a todo app, it’s an editor app) Is it just me that interpret this situation as “suck”, or this is the future?