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js_questionon Why we needed Redux in the past, and don’t any more

Followup question. Does it actually make sense to use React and render it server side only to get declarative component design?

I can totally see the use case for React for web apps which provide a lot of user interaction on the frontend. But for all other web apps it doesn't seem to make sense as you also have to handle quite a few disadvantages (e.g. SEO unfriendly, user can't copy URL and send to a friend)

Am I missing something?

js_questionon Why we needed Redux in the past, and don’t any more

I am an EE doing some web development on the side. Since a few weeks ago, my stack was mostly Flask (backend) + JQuery (frontend). My web apps were always light on the front end. Then I wanted to experiment with React. So far, I really like the declarative component design but don't like the Single Page App approach. Is there a way to render components on the server for each page individually without having to set up a new react project/web pack build step for each page?