Should I use server-side rendering?
A server-side rendered application enables pages to load faster, improving the user experience. When rendering server-side, search engines can easily index and crawl content because the content can be rendered before the page is loaded, which is ideal for SEO.
Is server-side rendering expensive?
Server-side rendering can be expensive and resource-intensive. It can be expensive because the full burden of rendering your content for bots and human website visitors is on your servers. Server-side rendering also tends not to work with third-party JavaScript.
What is client side rendering and why would I use it?
Client-Side Rendering is one possible solution to help you customize the display to your liking. What Is Client-Side Rendering? Client-Side Rendering (CSR) is javascript code that allows you to override the default SharePoint display by supplying your own html.
How does JavaScript work on the client side?
When developers talk about client-side rendering, they’re talking about rendering content in the browser using JavaScript. So instead of getting all of the content from the HTML document itself, you are getting a bare-bones HTML document with a JavaScript file that will render the rest of the site using the browser.
What are the pros and cons of server side rendering?
Below is a quick breakdown of the pros and cons for each approach: Search engines can crawl the site for better SEO. The initial page load is faster. Great for static sites. Frequent server requests. An overall slow page rendering. Full page reloads.
Why is CSR good for client side rendering?
CSR generates the HTML required to be displayed. This means DOM only contains enough code which is expected to be displayed by the HTML content. So DOM can easily handle a chunk of elements with the hide and show events. Although DOM has to handle more code, it doesn’t take much time to render.