SSR is cool, it has a lot advantages from a laravel perspective. You can write a frontend using your favorite UI framework and still write phpunit tests for it. That alone is the coolest thing. No need to spin up a chrome instance and render the whole page, just let SSR do it and best of all we have the benefits of SSR (SEO and speed) with Laravel.
So what do we have todo in order to do that?
One thing that made it possible in Vue is just recently they patched vue to work with any renderer, and I believe react has had this for a while. This post will dive into this setup.