There is a new implementation of the server coming in 4.2; the first draft has been merged into Master and some more updates on it are pending. I think once that's done it might be a good time to re-evaluate how that issue fits into the new world order and what a solution looks like. One of the primary uses cases for having a Kibana server was to support server side rendering.
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