Is server-side code faster?

A server is generally going to be orders of magnitude more powerful than a client machine; and managed code is generally much faster than scripting . However – the client machine also usually has a lot of spare computational power that isn’t being used, while the server could be running requests for thousands of users.

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Do I need server-side rendering?

Do you always need SSR? The short answer would be no. Not all apps need server-side rendering , especially apps with a dashboard and authentication that will not need SEO or sharing via social media. Plus, the expertise for building a server-rendered React app is higher than an app initialized using create-react-app.

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What is SSR and CSR?

In the case of CSR, the HTML is generated on the client side by executing Javascript code in the browser. The Javascript code is executed by the browser Javascript engine (eg. Chrome V8, Nitro, SpiderMonkey etc.) In the case of SSR, the HTML is generated by executing code on the server-side.

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