SSR website

Press Ctrl+U and you will see the HTML document sent by the server . If it’s mostly empty, you’re dealing with CSR; if it already contains all the content, it’s SSR.

Press Ctrl+U and you will see the HTML document sent by the server . If it’s mostly empty, you’re dealing with CSR; if it already contains all the content, it’s SSR.

Server-side code can be written in any number of programming languages — examples of popular server-side web languages include PHP, Python, Ruby, C#, and JavaScript (NodeJS).

Server-side code can be written in any number of programming languages — examples of popular server-side web languages include PHP, Python, Ruby, C#, and JavaScript (NodeJS).

But, client side markup/scripting languages (HTML5, JQuery, Ajax etc) have come a long way that you could now do SOME of the tasks you’d do at server side at client side. But, with the use of some external libraries (They could be open source or commercial).

But, client side markup/scripting languages (HTML5, JQuery, Ajax etc) have come a long way that you could now do SOME of the tasks you’d do at server side at client side. But, with the use of some external libraries (They could be open source or commercial).

Think of ReactJS as a server-side templating engine here (like jade, handlebars, etc…). The HTML rendered by the server contains the UI as it should be and you do not wait for any scripts to load. Your page can be indexed by a search engine (if one does not execute any javascript).