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It's not a stupid question at all.

They will most likely be rendering the page in full server-side. This is how things were done in the beginning, but also what a lot of websites are returning to, for performance reasons.

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Gotcha, I think that makes sense! Just to make sure I understand -- on server-side, they're pulling in all relevant information from their own database and whatever 3rd parties are needed (maybe for injury reports, etc.). The server then generates an HTML page that it sends as-is to the client, which just faithfully renders the code? Thanks for the answer!

Exactly that.

And you can go half way by embedding your data in the page and working with it as you do now. Depends on what you are doing.

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