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JSJ 371: The Benefits and Challenges of Server-Side Rendering (SSR) with Dan Shappir


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    Panel
    • Charles Max Wood
    • Joe Eames
    • Christopher Buecheler
    • Aimee Knight
    • AJ O’Neal
    • Joined by special guest: Dan Shappir

      Episode Summary

      In this episode of JavaScript Jabber, special guest Dan Shappir, Performance Tech Lead at Wix, kicks off the discussion by defining server-side rendering (SSR) along with giving its historical background, and touches on the differences between server rendering and server-side rendering. He helps listeners understand in detail how SSR is beneficial for the web and takes questions from the panel about how it affects web performance in cases where first-time users and returning users are involved, and how does SSR fare against technologies such as pre-rendering. He then elaborates on the pitfalls and challenges of SSR including managing and declaring variables, memory leaks, performance issues, handling SEO, and more, along with ways to mitigate them. In the end, Dan sheds some light on when should developers use SSR and how should they start working with it.

      Links
      • Dan’s Twitter
      • Dan’s GitHub
      • SSR
      • WeakMap
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            AJ O’Neal:

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              Joe Eames:

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                Charles Max Wood:

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                  Dan Shappir:

                  • Quora

                  • Corvid by Wix

                  • You Gotta Love Frontend Conferences

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