React Server Components vs SSR
React Server Components and Server-Side Rendering (SSR) are both important techniques used in web development to improve performance and user experience. Let’s take a closer look at both and compare them.
React Server Components
React Server Components is a new feature introduced by Facebook for optimizing server-side rendering in React applications. With Server Components, you can render parts of your React application on the server and send them to the client only when needed, reducing the amount of client-side rendering required. This can help improve performance and reduce load times for users.
Server-Side Rendering (SSR)
SSR is a technique that has been used for years in web development to improve SEO and performance by rendering the initial HTML content on the server before sending it to the client. This allows search engines to crawl and index the content more easily and can improve the perceived load time for users.
Comparison
While both React Server Components and SSR can improve performance and user experience, there are some key differences between the two. React Server Components are specifically designed for rendering parts of React applications on the server, while SSR is a more general technique that can be used with any web framework.
React Server Components can also dynamically load components on the server based on user interactions, while SSR typically pre-renders the entire page before sending it to the client. This can make React Server Components more flexible and efficient for complex applications.
Conclusion
Both React Server Components and SSR are valuable techniques for improving performance and user experience in web development. The choice between the two will depend on the specific needs of your application and the level of control and flexibility you require. Consider experimenting with both to see which works best for your project.
wow this is superb and icing on the cake after researching this topic for days, finally I can sleep well. My question is Server Components are like Virtual DOM in the server? Like they are literally components in the React server who have its own virtual DOM?
Without an explanation of how the RSC work it all looks like a magic and nothing is clear. So rendering a RSC produces some kind of a data structure, what's next? How this data structure is used to update the client components in the browser?
Awesome explanation!! BTW, I loved your style, the light of the video and the way you speak; it's like you were delivering a poem.
Good work, you did say that SOMEWHERE javascript deserializes the streamable text, is that SOMEWHERE what we call the EDGE environment?
wow cool, thanks
I love the way you explain things, really reminds me of Marco Pierre White. Subscribed!
Nice explanation sir.
You have got a good video with great content here, however, I feel that your voice audio is way too low and it’s making it very difficult for me to concentrate on what you are saying please consider increasing the volume of your voice relative to everything else. Thank you.
I have read somewhere that any components that has user interaction like click or anything shiuld not be a server component. However, in your exMple you have todo component as server component which i am speculating would have user events involved. Please correct me if my understanding is wrong?
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Excellent work, sir
Could you please explain why SEO is not affected by streaming in that weird JSON-like syntax?
Wow, great video and production. Subscribed!
Damn this was a good watch. Thank you sir for spreading your knowledge : )
This is only video that helped me to understand server components easily. Thanks man
thank you
SSR is about initial page only, it renders all elements and send them as pure HTML with js to hydrate it on the client side (once it’s done you have interactivity e.g. you can click a button)
Server components are about components, you can send them as react structure to the client to display some data (fetched and rendered on the server)
SSR is about whole page, and RSC is about single component
Super didactic explanation, thank you for this.
Is it possible to fetch data on a client side component and feed it down to a server side component? Now that I think about it, I have no idea why the app I’m building is structured like that but it might just be down to not having enough understanding of the concepts