alt Hacker NewsOkay, so what do you your servers actually serve stuff to?
I kind of don't get why if you want to display something in a web browser you'd generate anything other than HTML.
Okay, so what do you your servers actually serve stuff to?
I kind of don't get why if you want to display something in a web browser you'd generate anything other than HTML.
I think the parent's point is that when you have a react front-end, your back-end basically just deals in structs of data. There's no HTML or templating to think about. It's just JSON-serialisable structs. That makes the code on the back end much simpler, which makes it easier to run in a resource-constrained environment.
The only exposure the back-end has to HTML is streaming the static files to the browser. Which can be done in small chunks.
If your back-end is rendering HTML with every request, it has to do a lot more work. It has to load HTML templates into memory and insert strings into them.