Pretty funny that the push towards static serverless has made something you used to get essentially for free on your dynamic client-server app into quite a complex undertaking.
Static compile-time sites are fantastic for a huge swath of applications, but this is a good reminder that you can shift the work around and even come up with better isolated, decoupled approaches but somewhere it still has to get done. Introducing functionality that is dynamic outside the browser and requires state (i.e. persistence) is definitely an area that seems to "fight" the natural inclinations of frameworks like Gatsby et al.
Static compile-time sites are fantastic for a huge swath of applications, but this is a good reminder that you can shift the work around and even come up with better isolated, decoupled approaches but somewhere it still has to get done. Introducing functionality that is dynamic outside the browser and requires state (i.e. persistence) is definitely an area that seems to "fight" the natural inclinations of frameworks like Gatsby et al.