What advantages are conferred by using server-side page rendering?

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Published on 2012-04-05T18:26:38Z Indexed on 2012/04/05 23:42 UTC
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I am developing a web app and I have currently written the entire website in html/js/css and on the backend I have servlets that host some RESTFUL services. All the presentation logic is done through getting json objects and modifying the view through javascript.

The application is essentially a search engine, but it will have user accounts with different roles.

I've been researching some frameworks such as Play and Spring. I'm fairly new to web development, so I was wondering what advantages using server side page rendering would provide?

Is it: Speed? Easier development and workflow? Access to existing libraries? More? All of the above?

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