Show HN: Node/React/Redux blog that I've made. Dockerized, Isomorphic, has Auth

I get that you're doing server-side rendering to mitigate the performance costs. I just don't get why any of these technologies were necessary to begin with. I mean, 120 dependencies just to display a blog!

I am reminded of the old joke about Java developers:

> lately the language has been sort of growing some of the features it previously rejected, although they pretty are much bolted on. Many people have even forgotten that there is a whole world full of people who don't get around in powered wheelchairs and don't need machines to help them chew, and argue passionately about how much they love their Chewing Completion and Integrated Mobility Environments and how easy it is to sort of slowly shamble up stairs on these prosthetic legs (which sounds impressive after you've spent five years in a wheelchair), endlessly haranguing those who choose to run on their own two feet about what they are missing by not getting their legs chopped off.

Investing in an abstraction as heavy as React-Redux and then spending hours configuring server-side rendering, webpack dev middleware, code splitting and who knows what all to emulate the behaviour of vanilla web technologies​ - you're basically swapping healthy feet for sophisticated prostheses.

Why not just template HTML out of an SQL query?