Never did I ever once think React would one day be compared to PHP.

Reading that post the other day and seeing modern terminology being applied to old backend rendering was quite the experience. "Imagine on initial page load it returns the complete screen UI with all props and components already hydrated".

I remember those days but I remember some of the bad as well. I really started to hate that every UI change in the template/HTML meant changing the page controller to handle the new data. I specifically remember wanting some technology that allowed the UI to dictate what data it needed.

The pendulum swings though and it seems we are reversing course lately. Perhaps we land on a solid middle ground finally.