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So I thought the entire point of SSR was to speed up initial page load - if you pre-render all the static parts of the page, including what happens after routin

So I thought the entire point of SSR was to speed up initial page load - if you pre-render all the static parts of the page, including what happens after routing, but before any API calls, so that your webserver can cache that static HTML for that route and serve it up. What this means is that the user immediately sees much more of a rendered HTML page, rather than seeing a blank page for 2 seconds and having to wait to download and run a massive JS bundle first.

k__ 9y ago
No, it was to improve SEO and other clients without JS
- dntrkv 9y ago
  That's part of it, but getting viewable content to the user as soon as possible is just as big. Without SSR, the user has to wait for the JS to download, parse, and execute before they see anything on the page.