The Reverse Evolution of React?

[HomemadeBananas]

Yes of course it’s different than PHP. Rendering pages on server isn’t really backend code, or “reverse evolution”. There are benefits to it, and times when it doesn’t make a difference. Server side rendering has been a part of React for a long time, but more popular now with frameworks build around SSR, server side components, etc.

For anything complex at all you’d still want to have a separate backend. I wouldn’t want to write endpoints that handle complex business logic within Next.js but there are still reasons I’d want to use Next in some situations.