@nickcherry what stack is the Warpcast web app using? Would love to hear about design decisions etc

cma.xyz. Founder /paragraph, ceo /mirror, previously at Google & Coinbase 

Knowing that we would want OpenGraph support and eventually SEO, we seriously considered SSR solutions like Next and Remix. Ultimately, though, we felt that they introduced a fair amount of complexity with relatively little upside – the biggest benefit being "free" server-side rendering for OG and SEO.

A CSR solution was simpler and I would argue potentially more performant, but we still needed to solve the OG problem. We considered outsourcing the server-side rendering to someone like prerender.io, but we didn't love the idea of relying on a third-party, particularly when our product reqs weren't that demanding.

Great thread. Why do you think CSR is more performant in this use case?

I think SSR tends to be more performant for FMP at the beginning of the session (notably with a delay before JS becomes interactive), but assuming you are hydrating the app, I think you end up sending more data over the wire and may get into waterfall situations for subsequent page loads.