Working on the server

Web technologies have come a long way or, more precisely, have come full circle. It all started with static web pages prepared by a server. Servers were the foundation of all website and application logic, as they were entirely responsible for their functioning. Then, we tried to move away from SSR in favor of rendering pages in the browser, which led to a significant leap in the development of web pages as fully fledged applications, now comparable to desktop ones. As a result, browsers became the core of application logic, while servers merely provided data for applications.

Currently, the development cycle has brought us back to SSR and server components, but now we have a unified logic and code for both the server and the client. Why this happened and what conclusions and experiences we have gained with the evolution of technologies are what we will try to understand in this section, and we will simultaneously learn about the types of work our applications...