Which semantic layer they are using?

Doesn’t make any sense for me why we are now using React in the backend, to render HTML… Let’s go back to 10 years ago.

Having a templating system in ‘that environment’ is worth its weight in gold IMO. I’ve been switching between Svelte and Django templates a lot lately, and Svelte just…knowing about the DOM, makes the experience so much nicer. I haven’t come across a non-JS template system that does this. And yes, I was there for PHP and jQuery and whatever.

I have to agree, Django templating (last I saw) was stuck somewhere in Web 1.0

Jinja2 is better, but most of the time, I would just build the API and not bother with rendering anything on Django itself

It's just another template engine, we can do the same (components like templates) in any language for years.

Ruby example that Github is using: https://viewcomponent.org/ https://viewcomponent.org/viewcomponents-at-github.html

We've had templating systems on the server-side for many decades?

Do you mean having a javascript templating system maybe? Not really worth it's weight in gold.

I was using ASP with JScript on Microsoft IIS servers back in 1999. So yeah, many decades. :)

Reacts programming model appeals to people, and react is good at problems that have a predictable output like HTML.

Plus if your frontend is react, it’s much easier to keep all the html generation in one place.

A combination of the devil you know and Stockholm Syndrome.

It was better in many ways than the dominant techniques in 2013, sure, but that's not a terribly high bar, especially when observing the React model a decade later.

React served well enough for quick starts. It proved… challenging… for ongoing maintenance and quality control in long-lived projects.

Because 25yo "senior" devs with egos to support needed old tech to disparage to that end and PHP was it.

Because Vercel wants to host your backend and they have their hands in React

Because it's nicer than most other templating systems, and when you want to add interactivity, it's nice to have everything in one language and paradigm. Plus, static typing support.

I recently read about a "page-based routing" library for… PHP.

It really doesn't make sense.

It works with Supabase self-hosted?

yes, it works with self-hosted too - although we just released it this week so it might take another week or so to land in the docker image

How does it work with custom objects that customers have inside Salesforce? Each end-user can select which custom objects they want like to sync?

Yup! That is one possibility. We offer an API so you can query all the available objects inside a user's Salesforce account, and from there you can have the user select what specific objects are relevant, and those will be pulled through.

How many conspiracy theories people will create/associate using that story?

Black helicopters? Conspiracy? There's even a Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_helicopter

Now, just like every other conspiracy nut, I'd like to state upfront that I'm no conspiracy theorist. However, over the years "seeing black helicopters" has been an insult used by some. Yet I used to see them parked out in the open at the National Guard base along I-70 in eastern Indiana like 25-30 years ago. And here we have photos published by not-disreputable source. Make of it what you will.

Now I feel like watching every movie listed in the "Fictional representations" section

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_helicopter#Fictional_rep...

I think it's pretty clear they are saying people would say you're a nutter for saying unmarked helicopters are used by government agencies yet he knew them to exist even back then. Not sure where you picked up that they were the same exact helicopters.

Thanks! I basically checked how other embeddable companies are doing, but you are right, I think it could be simpler now, thanks!

Thanks for the feedback! I will fix those typos.

where? :)

We used third-party services to generate that, and that's why we redirect. We are looking to migrate that to our end in the future. Thanks for the question!

The stack is Rails, React and GraphQL. We are using Heroku for hosting right now, but we are looking to move to AWS.