title: Client Side HTML MVC Rendering vs Server Side Rending via NodeJS
body: <p>We are looking for options on our team to decide between a Angular based client side MVC approach and a server side NodeJS / ExpressJS server side render approach. </p>
  
  <p>Our Angular app downloads as one index.html and makes XHR requests to populate the page. Since we need the page to be pre-rendered we have used PhantomJS to save off a copy of every page when the content changes to a location on the server. This allows support for SEO. </p>
  
  <p>Are there any examples of full page backbone applications or angular applications that people can point to for us to see if others are doing this. </p>
  
  <p>Alternatively are the examples of NodeJS server side rendered applications we can see in the wild. </p>
  
  <p>Lastly does anyone have opinions on this sort of architecture?</p>