🚀 Understanding Rendering in Next.js — From CSR to React Server Components (RSC)

When building a Next.js application, one of the biggest questions is: Where should your UI be rendered? Understanding the evolution of rendering helps you choose the right approach for performance, SEO, and user experience. 1️⃣ Client-Side Rendering (CSR) With CSR, the browser receives a mostly empty HTML file along with a JavaScript bundle. React then builds the UI in the browser. ✅ Advantages SSR generates HTML on the server for every request and sends fully rendered HTML to the browser. ✅ Ben