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Instacart needs to fix basically everything, it is in the name but they fail pretty hard at even being a cart and the web app is slow due to client side javascript. Looks like they are competing with AirBnB in how broken their web apps are. Hell some items exist, but are shadowed and in accessible presumably due to id and class collisions.

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honest question: is server side processing generally preferred? if so, why has there been much more evolution on the JS front than on the Node/Django/RoR front?

Instacarts web 11/7ths SPA is slow through their own ineptness. Instacart has failed in that no one should be talking about their site.

Huge evolution in the php world in the last few years.

Javascript as a language went through big changes. Older killer patterns like jQuery were not needed. Browsers started taking a gig of memory and offers more client side power.

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