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"We're sorry but web doesn't work properly without JavaScript enabled. Please enable it to continue."

This appears to be a static content site after I enabled JS. Why can't the site display static content without JS?

Because it's done in a JS framework without server side rendering.

"server side rendering", cool, I was doing that in 1995

What is a better alternative to server side rendering?

I think he's more referring to the fact that we were already at a point where it was normal to do server side rendering. Now it's an add-on that the JS framework may support (https://vuejs.org/v2/guide/ssr.html).

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