Server-Side Rendering (SSR) (SSR)
Generating a page's HTML on the server for each request, so the browser receives fully rendered content instead of a blank shell.
What Is Server-Side Rendering?
Server-Side Rendering (SSR) means the server produces the full HTML for a page on each request and sends it to the browser ready to display, rather than shipping an empty shell that JavaScript fills in afterward. The user sees meaningful content sooner, and search engines get complete markup to crawl.
SSR is often contrasted with client-side rendering (CSR) and static generation (SSG). Modern frameworks like Next.js let teams mix all three per route — SSR for personalized or frequently changing pages, SSG for stable content — to balance performance, freshness, and SEO.
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