I already blogged about this briefly. Now Theo (t3.gg) delivered a new, brilliant summary about this topic:

The video covers React and React Server Components as example.

Here was my blog post about Rich Harris take on this regarding SvelteKit development:

Rich Harris explains why SvelteKit pushes for Server Side Rendering (and against SPA / CSR)

One of the big questions regarding this is: Will NodeJS SSR in future be as easily and cheaply available as todays widespread PHP hosting?

Btw: There are great news regarding Hosting NodeJS with Server Side Rendering in the EU 🇪🇺:

Green Webspace hosting company Mittwald just announced support for NodeJS SSR on their SpaceServer offering. You can try it for free for 10 days here:

Mittwald SpaceServer

Beside the great sustainability efforts by Mittwald the GDPR-compliance of this offering is a big plus for customer projects.

(This is not a sponsored post, I'm just a fan of their work)

I'll try this out next and post about it on dev.to.

If you are interested in SSR-hosting and GDPR, you could also check out this tutorial: Host SvelteKit apps with SSR-support via ploi.io: (on Hetzner Cloud)

Another easy and fast way of trying out SSR hosting is still Vercel, next to some other US services like render.com, etc.

What are your experiences with NodeJS SSR hosting? Let me know in the comments! 🤗