Comment by jkcxn

Yes this is exactly right. What I’ve done in the past is use Django to return HTML with JSX mixed in, and have a super lightweight SPA frontend that just hydrates the react components on each load. You can also use form state to communicate back and forth with the server, where sending a response doesn’t refresh the entire page, just a react render diff. With this you get the best of both worlds where your backend can do the heavy lifting where everything it needs to decide on the view is all in one place, and your frontend just comprises of really really generic JS components.

I have a library I’ve been playing around with for 2 years now, I should package it up