The graphic is misleading: - You can easily do prerendering and asset packing in the frontend build step - You don't need MVC on the backend - You can use a

The graphic is misleading: - You can easily do prerendering and asset packing in the frontend build step - You don't need MVC on the backend - You can use a third party for authorization - Frontend can just be a React app - VirtualDOM doesn't add any complexity in addition to the frontend View - You don't need MVC on the frontend - Frontend can fetch data from the API and cache it with cache-control header The simplest setup is actually to host a React app from an S3 bucket and use Lambda / Cloud Functions to respond to network requests.