alt Hacker NewsBut how many use _just_ React now? There is a whole stack that 90% of YC companies use: Node, pnpm, Next, React, doing SSR by default. Idk about it all. Most of the time when I ask why they do SSR they can't tell me a valid reason. Their bundle sizes are so big for what the apps do.
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kace91 • yesterday at 8:47 PM
>Most of the time when I ask why they do SSR they can't tell me a valid reason.
Isn't it mainly about playing nice with crawlers? SEO and the like?
(that was my understanding but I'm a backend dev).
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b_e_n_t_o_n • yesterday at 8:45 PM
I think most are still using React with maybe React Router. Node and Pnpm aren't really complicated or difficult to use, neither is Vite.
habibur • yesterday at 8:53 PM
> when I ask why they do SSR
What are the reasons for not doing SSR?
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I've used plain react for a few things in the past few years. I strongly prefer it to next/nuxt/all this other stuff. Preact and an understanding of best practices can make it fairly performant with a more or less drop-in replacement if you're willing to sacrifice compatibility with absolutely all the ecosystem.
I still prefer svelte but it's less mature and universally-known. React is still a pretty good choice if you need something that will more or less work and that anyone can write.