Javascript has a rich ecosystem around rendering and displaying webpages but there are other languages which are subjectively better at data modeling and efficiently implementing an API.<p>I've been looking for a project which successfully separates the API from the frontend and also provides a server-side render (aka universal, aka isomorphic).<p>Does anyone have a project like this they might be willing to link to? Every react/angular boilerplate project I've found has the API tightly integrated into the javascript!<p>Thanks!
I had this scenario(or at least close to it) on the company that I've worked before. We had a nodejs/angular frontend and all the backend were spread across multiple api(each api was a microservice).<p>It does scale very well, considering that all the microservices are written in ruby.<p>And for the SEO thing, there was a varnish server before the frontend server that sends bots request to a custom prerender server ( <a href="https://github.com/prerender/prerender" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/prerender/prerender</a> ).<p>So basically, normal users were redirected to the nodejs app, and google and others crawlers were redirected to prerender.<p>I dunno exactly if this is what you want to get with "also provides a server-side render", but I guess it's close to what you're looking for :)