For dynamic websites, React should always be SSR first with optional client hydration. Next.js makes React SSR easier, if you're using Next.js for non-static si

For dynamic websites, React should always be SSR first with optional client hydration. Next.js makes React SSR easier, if you're using Next.js for non-static sites, and not doing SSR, you shouldn't be using Next.js. Browsers have decades of optimization to show HTML to you as fast as possible. Before scripts, sometimes before stylesheets. Browsers can't optimize the extended network dance you need to do to download and parse KB of Javascript before you can _start_ fetching data. SSR with partial client Javascript hydration. It's a solved problem, but few people do it.