Curious if React folks here have strong thoughts on SSR vs. SPA?

ssr is plain stupid

users have supercomputers in their hands

do not outsource computing to centralized machines

also makes cdn's less effective (as opposed to serving lightweight spa)

crawlers run js now, for the ones who don't you can use prerender libs

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Your favorite prerender lib?

Does Google really not care about the page needing to load? Would imagine that impacts SEO somewhat?

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prerender.io I've used use a lot, they're getting better about it. As google tends to do. 

The best thing ever is having those super lightweight, ssr versions of pages cached for googlebot to hit. Butter all the way down.

https://docs.netlify.com/site-deploys/post-processing/prerendering/

It's been in beta for over a year kek

Google penalizes render-blocking JS, so there’s some inherent risk with this approach, although it’s not the case that your content would be undiscoverable anymore. JS-reliant sites also index more slowly than ones with HTML response w/ page content from server

the impact is insignificant (until proven otherwise)

react-spa-prerender is good enough :)