It's been a remarkable year for frontend. We've seen a gold rush to capture – and invent – the server-side rendering (SSR) market; the advancing tentacles of AI; a Cambrian explosion of web renderers and JS engines; a formidable line of hopefuls attempting to unseat the big names from their pedestals; and movements on various other fronts. So before the traditional soothsaying of the year to come, let's review the hotchpotch this year has been so far. 2023 in review SSR SSR is nothing new...