They get close to saying the thing that's been driving me lately:
"something that a lot of companies have run into of like they have a Rails backend or you know something that was fine serverside rendering stuff the way we've always done the web and then they were like you know what if we it was all #React and then it actually wasn't faster in the end"
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"Codepen was a rails app, but react server side components don't integrate with Rails, at least not that they could see. Half the app on rails, half on Next JS, and a Go API."
Yeah. #SSR evolved from the wrong direction.Taking a browser-native #JS only thing and trying to make it work on the server, where existing tech stacks vary widely is a recipe for pain.
From this podcast with Shaw from @codepen

Keyframes, Cash, and CodePen w/ Shaw - Whiskey Web and Whatnot - Episode 243
This week, Robbie and Adam welcome Shaw from CodePen to talk CSS animations, web components, server side rendering nightmares, and why building things by hand still matters in the age of AI slop. They dig into the CodePen 2.0 rewrite, Apollo GraphQL cache mani...

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