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This feels like clickbait, but just as an aside there's nothing that says you can't do server side rendering and react. Next.js is what I'm using on my current project and it's server side out of the box. So you have text rendered in source like you would with a traditional server side app with the benefits of SPA. So at least one of his nitpicks sounds like he didn't do his homework.

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Of course you can use server side rendering with Next.js,but it adds some work/complexity

With a server rendered website, you don't have to do anything

I mean, not really? When you want a new page you create a react component in the "/pages" directory. "/pages/hello/index.js" routes to "mysite.com/hello", and "/pages/hello/there/world/index.js" routes to "mysite.com/hello/there/world". The pages are served from a node.js site. The newest version (8) comes with lambda rendering but you don't have to use it if you don't want.

This is pretty simple to reason about honestly.

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