So I do think front end stacks have come a long way over the past decade... but just to give a counter example...
I have seen a lot of sites get worse as a result of migrating from server-side rendering to client-side rendering. Things like broken back buttons, massive page sizes, and terrible rendering performance on low powered hardware.
An example that comes to mind is Salesforce. They introduced a new “lighting experience” that seems to use a newer stack. But it’s taken them ages to migrate all of the features over, forcing users to switch back and forth between the old and the new. It can also be a real beast to render on something like a surface tablet. It must be costing them an enormous amount of money to support both UIs, and I have to wonder if it was really worth it vs maybe applying some new CSS and more incremental improvements.
I have seen a lot of sites get worse as a result of migrating from server-side rendering to client-side rendering. Things like broken back buttons, massive page sizes, and terrible rendering performance on low powered hardware.
An example that comes to mind is Salesforce. They introduced a new “lighting experience” that seems to use a newer stack. But it’s taken them ages to migrate all of the features over, forcing users to switch back and forth between the old and the new. It can also be a real beast to render on something like a surface tablet. It must be costing them an enormous amount of money to support both UIs, and I have to wonder if it was really worth it vs maybe applying some new CSS and more incremental improvements.