Re:Ask HN: Why does front-end development change so often?
by waingake on Sunday January 20, 2019 @02:51AM
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Fairly recently rendering in the client became possible and desirable. This was a paradigm shift, it raised a lot of new problems, and a number of attempts were made at solving these issues. The field is settling now on the ideas with the most merit. Reacts idea of the virtual dom is an example of an idea that is becoming a stable standard.
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Re:Ask HN: Why does front-end development change so often?
by hnmonkey on Sunday January 20, 2019 @03:00AM
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Is rendering the right word here? It doesn't feel like it is to me. I thought rendering was the final step in taking a DOM and turning it into something that is shown on the screen. Basically, the job of the browser. Based on your logic you're saying that before now rendering was happening on the server, but that doesn't make sense.
Edit: I thought about it and it seems like generating is the right word and rendering is still just something that happens on the client-side no matter what.