Shifting Frontend to the Server

In the past, web applications used to be backend-centric, where HTML pages were generated on the server, and templates were used to add dynamic data.

As time passed, the demand for interactivity on web pages grew, leading to active advancements in frontend technologies, notably through the adoption of the Single Page Application (SPA) approach. Frameworks evolved to the point where the frontend became a separate application, designed and developed independently by separate teams and hosted separately as well.

This separation, …

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