The release of React Server Components is arguably the biggest fundamental shift in the React ecosystem since hooks. For years, the community trended towards Heavy Client-Side Rendering (CSR), sending massive javascript bundles to the browser and doing all the heavy lifting on the user's device.
What are React Server Components?
RSCs allow developers to render components exclusively on the server. This means you can write React code that queries a database or reads the file system directly, without ever exposing that code, or the libraries it depends on, to the client bundle.
The result? Faster page loads, zero client-side javascript for static content, and significantly improved SEO.
Moving Forward with Next.js
Frameworks like Next.js 13+ have built their App Router around this new paradigm. By seamlessly blending Server Components (for data fetching) and Client Components (for interactivity), we are finally achieving the holy grail of web development: the UX of a Single Page App with the performance and SEO of traditional server-rendered HTML.
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