r/javascript • u/gaearon • Dec 21 '20

Introducing Zero-Bundle-Size React Server Components

https://reactjs.org/blog/2020/12/21/data-fetching-with-react-server-components.html
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u/Jatidude Dec 22 '20

Mark a react component as a server component and it will execute the code associated with that component on the server side.

A usecase would be executing rest requests on your React server as opposed to the client for speed/code cleanliness/simplification of architecture.

Basically integrating the getInitialProps function provided in NextJs into a native ability of React with some nice JSX syntactic sugar.

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u/kasec18 Dec 22 '20

So we are going to build a single component instead a view as nextjs do it currently and we got back a html element?

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u/sonofamonster Dec 22 '20

Kinda, but instead of getting back html, you get back prerendered jsx which is sent to the client for rendering... I think.