What is the Server-Side Rendering and how it works
Server-side rendering (SSR) is a technique for rendering web content on the server-side, i.e., before the page is sent to the client.
In this article, I will explore what server-side rendering is, how it works, and its benefits and drawbacks.
What is Server-Side Rendering?
In server-side rendering, the server generates the HTML for a page, which is then sent to the client. This is in contrast to client-side rendering, where the HTML is generated on the client-side, using JavaScript to render content in the browser.
With SSR, the server receives a request from the client and generates the HTML for the requested page. The resulting HTML is then sent to the client, which can display it in the browser.
Server-Side Rendering is also named Pre-Rendering (the same is true for the Static Site Generation — SSG) because the fetching of external data and transformation of components, content and data into HTML happens before the result is sent to the client.
How Does Server-Side Rendering Work?
Let’s take a much deeper look at how server-side rendering works.
- A user requests a page from a server: this could be a direct request to the server or a…
