Server-side rendering
Server-side rendering (SSR) recently became yet another popular abbreviation in the web development world. Used in addition to code splitting techniques, it helps you to boost the performance of your web application. It also positively affects your SEO, since all the content comes at once, and crawlers are able to see it immediately, contrary to cases where the content is being built in the browser after the initial request.
I found a great article about SSR that compares server and client side rendering (although it's from 2012). Check it out: http://openmymind.net/2012/5/30/Client-Side-vs-Server-Side-Rendering/.
It's fairly easy to bring server-side rendering to your Vue application – check the official documentation in this regard: https://ssr.vuejs.org.
It is important that our applications are performant; it is also important that SEO works. However, it is also important not to abuse the tools and not to introduce implementation overhead and overkill. Do we need...
