Server-side rendering please save us.

sah2ed · on Aug 15, 2017

Well, there's now Chrome headless which is slowly edging out PhantomJS for such use cases.

mintplant · on Aug 15, 2017

Are you suggesting running an entire web browser on the server-side just to render each client request to HTML?

That VC money must really be flowing...

Arcsech · on Aug 15, 2017

This article was posted on HN a while back suggesting exactly that: https://hackernoon.com/leaner-alternatives-to-server-side-re...

It's just as ridiculous as it sounds.

sah2ed · on Aug 15, 2017

No. It's only needed to playback archives of web pages that only work with old JavaScript libraries enabled.

But then again there's WebRecorder for exactly that.