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It perplexes me how every modern web framework that supports server side rendering couples itself to a node runtime. The reality is most companies cannot simply add a node runtime to their production environment.

> most companies cannot simply add a node runtime to their production environment. A lot of companies are already running Node so the integration is trivial. I think you're extrapolating to big companies though with complicated release processes.

Also there's nothing in (at least React's) server-side renderer that requires a Node runtime. You could run it in any JavaScript engine.

I assume the original tweet means not just Node but s/node/server-side JavaScript environment/. If your whole server stack is in Java or C++ or whatever it's probably nontrivial to add some JS engine into the mix

Sounds like Google should show us all how it's done and open-source their JS front-end framework with a runtime-agnostic (or just Java) render backend then