React is, I am convinced, the new Struts only client side.

Struts was SSR before we needed a term for SSR. It had low productivity so it looked like it was doing well in the industry because there were so goddamned many jobs. But if you asked people you really couldn’t find many that loved it, and if they did it was a sign that maybe their judgment wasn’t that great, and you were going to be disappointed if you asked follow-up questions about what else they thought was a good idea.

It was killed by JSTL, which was one of the first templating systems to get away from <% > syntax.