The oft-touted claim is that client-side templating is easier, but they're the same, really. The server solution is literally using the same exact templating engine and code.
What people are conflating is "doing things in the client with JavaScript" and "rendering templates in JavaScript", which are two entirely different domains.
You can't access many cool features client-side without JavaScript, full stop. But rendering things on the client, and presenting an absolutely un-usable design without turning-completeness is not content-first design.
What people are conflating is "doing things in the client with JavaScript" and "rendering templates in JavaScript", which are two entirely different domains.
You can't access many cool features client-side without JavaScript, full stop. But rendering things on the client, and presenting an absolutely un-usable design without turning-completeness is not content-first design.