**🎩 Gentlemen, it appears we're in recursion... and the culprit is React 18
**In the early days of my frontend career, the frontend was generated through templating on the backend
Back then, a "frontend developer" was called a "layout designer" - a specialist who designed HTML templates, while the "backend developer" would take them, write functions to retrieve data from the database, and insert it into these templates
Later, libraries for SPA (I started with Backbone, but the first revolution was made by Angular 1) appeared
That's when we had a complete separation of "frontend developers" who wrote all the client-side logic and "backend developers" who created APIs for the client
Over time, it became clear that search engines didn't want to adapt to SPA, and the rendering speed was poor when loading from the frontend, so frameworks like Next.js and Remix started to appear
Now, frontend developers could not only make requests to the backend but also add requests to the database in the server-side rendering logic
And finally, React 18 is released, which adds support for server-side rendering components directly within itself... meaning that frontend developers can now write requests to the database directly in special React components, which will be loaded on the server and sent to the client...
https://nextjs.org/docs/advanced-features/react-18/server-components
If we don't go into details, this is exactly how web development was initially set up, only now frontend developers can write requests to the database for rendering templates, not just backend developers
In my opinion, this is very good news, because as a backend developer, I hate writing API endpoints for the frontend, especially CRUD-like ones
If frontend developers will handle requests to the database for retrieving/creating data, I'll be happy, and I'm even ready to create separate optimized tables for them
On the other hand, I've only seen a couple of good frontend developers in my career who wrote decent SPAs, and now we're going to let them touch the database...
We'll see how it goes, and I wish you all a powerful boost 💪