Re:We Fell Out of Love with Next.js and Back in Love with Ru...
by WuxiFingerHold on Saturday May 03, 2025 @11:37PM
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Yes, pure old school SPAs have at least one additional roundtrip on the first visit of the site:
1. Fetch index.html
2. Fetch js, css and other assets
3. Load personalized data (json)
But usually step 1 and 2 are served from a cdn, so very fast. On subsequent requests, 1 and 2 are usually served from the browser cache, so extremely fast.
SSR is usually not faster. Most often slower. You can check yourself in your browser dev tools (network tab):
Re:We Fell Out of Love with Next.js and Back in Love with Ru...
by yawaramin on Friday May 09, 2025 @12:29PM
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> Poster child SSR
That's not really SSR though, it's partial SSR but then hydrated into a client-side React app, so a SPA. If you really want to compare try an htmx page.
1. Fetch index.html 2. Fetch js, css and other assets 3. Load personalized data (json)
But usually step 1 and 2 are served from a cdn, so very fast. On subsequent requests, 1 and 2 are usually served from the browser cache, so extremely fast.
SSR is usually not faster. Most often slower. You can check yourself in your browser dev tools (network tab):
SPA: https://www.solidjs.com/
vs.
Poster child SSR: https://nextjs.org/
So much complexity and effort in the nextjs app, but so much slower.