> Server-Side Rendering comprises various techniques involved in running JavaScript universally or as some like to say, isomorphically, that is, both on the server and on the client [...]<p>I am like: "Did they just redefine SSR to limit its meaning to something JS specific, when it was the default for decades?" Then:<p>> [...] — in order to pregenerate markup for delivery and spare the browser from having to do so dynamically on page load — this is my definition, you'll find many others, but I think this captures the gist of it.<p>Ahhh, their own definition! OK, it is rather weird to limit SSR to be something JS specific, when people have been talking about rendering HTML on the server side for decades. Most web frameworks are able to make use of some kind of templating language, of which there are hundreds, if not thousands. Often they are interchangable and not a hard dependency of the web framework.