Greenspan: Tradeoffs of client-side rendering vs. server-side rendering

For anyone who wants to take the "Holy Grail" path, I've been a big fan of Rendr. ( https://github.com/airbnb/rendr ).

With a bit of self-discipline, all your views can be written out using string concatenation on the server before being sent out to the client. This means no worrying about full browser stacks, or DOM manipulation, or anything else server-side.

Rendr helps with that step in addition to wrapping up model fetching and re-hydration when they get sent out to the client.

Using something like Rendr keeps you in the full Backbone/node ecosystem instead of the Meteor walled garden, letting you incrementally handle this instead of making a strict architecture choice to Meteor.