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In 2008 I built a production website in Helma (server side JavaScript framework running on Rhino, JS on the JVM) with E4X for the view. You could say I've been waiting for React for a long time. Also that I used way-too-niche technology for a one-off project. :-/

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Avantgarde rather than niche I'd say.

Helma, v8cgi and co. pioneered server-side JavaScript and around 2010 inspired CommonJS for portability, which Node.js became the dominant implementation of.

I believe Netscape's original web server product featured JavaScript as server-side scripting language back in 1995/6 already.

And the TU-Graz Hyper-G system => Hyperwave, which was very popular in the early internet days. It preceded WWW and Netscape by a bit.

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