That came later, but yes we could (we did some wild stuff with v8js in PHP). And I'm convinced that anything in the blog requires either feature, though I get that more complex systems might.
Yeah, I remember all the fun that I had with PhantomJS & friends... My point was that isomorphic/universal/whatever it's called now JS and declarative component frameworks do have some advantages over our WP setups from 15 years ago. Agreed that you should still choose the right tool for the right job though.
> pretender our jQuery on the server.
That came later, but yes we could (we did some wild stuff with v8js in PHP). And I'm convinced that anything in the blog requires either feature, though I get that more complex systems might.
Yeah, I remember all the fun that I had with PhantomJS & friends... My point was that isomorphic/universal/whatever it's called now JS and declarative component frameworks do have some advantages over our WP setups from 15 years ago. Agreed that you should still choose the right tool for the right job though.