alt Hacker NewsWithout RSC you have to wait for the user to download the application bundle before the request for content can even be sent to the server. So that means that the db queries and stuff are not even initiated until the client has the bundle and runs it, vs with RSC that stuff is all launched the moment the first request comes in from the user.
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zarzavat • today at 7:34 AM
> Without RSC you have to wait for the user to download the application bundle before the request for content can even be sent to the server.
This is an argument for not putting all your JS in one monolithic bundle and instead parallelizing data loading and JS loading. It's not an argument for RSC.
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That doesn't seem to be how this implementation of RSC is intended to work. Here, client code triggers the RSC fetch, which is treated as any other sort of data fetch. Presumably, it still waits for client code to load to do that.
Also SSR, even in React, existed well before RSCs did, and that seems to be really what you are talking about.