Re:I Miss Rails
by digitaltrees on Friday March 29, 2019 @03:32PM
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Server side rendering means the server converts a template into a fully formed html page by pulling layouts and partials together, adding JS/css assets, interpolating dynamic sections with data from the database. The response to the browser is html ready to parse and display.
Client side means the layouts, templates, partials, components are on the client and are stitched together their. The server only send data and the client app handles interpolation and generating the html.
>one nit pick, what does "server-side rendering", and even "client-side rendering", even mean? The browser renders HTML, it's always client side and it's always outside of the scope of application code.
This is an excellent point. Both HTML and JSON are string representations of data structures. Both are eventually transformed and converted to DOM.
> Does "rendering" really mean template parsing?
It's kind of a misnomer; it usually means generating a "renderable" thing (e.g. HTML) , not actually rendering it on the screen because yes the browser does that.
one nit pick, what does "server-side rendering", and even "client-side rendering", even mean? The browser renders HTML, it's always client side and it's always outside of the scope of application code. Does "rendering" really mean template parsing?