young me: i wonder if this new technical thing is cool

middle-aged me: i wonder if i can avoid knowing about this new technical thing until it goes away

@brennen it's definitely worked for me with React. Everyone's all "SSR now" and I'm like "I never stopped R'ing on the SS"

@pikesley

@rgarner @brennen @pikesley As someone old enough to remember the Cold War, SSR has a specific meaning to me. Dare I ask what it means in this context?
@6of47 @brennen @pikesley server-side rendering. When a computer other than yours renders the HTML in your browser, as distinct from "single-page apps" that get some JSON from a server and render the HTML — often very slowly and without key accessibility features or UI consistency — in your browser