Server Components to the Rescue: Turbocharging and Empowering Your React Apps with Style

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Join us as we dive into the exciting world of React Server Components, an feature designed to revolutionize the way we build web applications. In this action-packed talk, we'll explore the key benefits of Server Components, such as reduced client-side code, improved performance, and streamlined development experience. Through engaging examples and live demos, you'll learn how to integrate Server Components into your React projects and harness their power to create next-level user experiences. Don't miss out on this opportunity to stay ahead of the curve and elevate your React skills!

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FAQ

React server components are components that run on the server, allowing full access to backend resources like databases and file systems without impacting the initial load time. They help in improving performance by reducing the amount of code sent to the client.

React server components were first introduced by the React team on December 21st, 2020.

The main benefits include easy maintenance, quick build times, improved performance metrics, and enhanced user experiences. They minimize the code needed at startup and streamline data formatting and retrieval.

React server components improve page load times by minimizing the amount of JavaScript that needs to be downloaded at startup. They handle much of the logic on the server side, thereby reducing the initial payload and processing needs on the client side.

No, React server components do not interact directly with browser APIs. They are used for server-side operations, while client-side interactions and effects must be handled by client components.

Server components operate on the server and handle tasks like interacting with databases and other back-end services. Client components run in the browser and manage user state, effects, and interactions with browser APIs.

React server components cannot use local storage, interact with Bluetooth, or access the webcam. They also can't use hooks like useState or useEffect, which are designed for client-side state management and side effects.

Future enhancements for React server components include improving the synchronization of state between server and client, enabling server components to re-render in response to state changes, and maintaining client-side interactivity without full page refreshes.

Pillippa Pérez Pons
Pillippa Pérez Pons
16 min
15 Nov, 2023

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Welcome to the server components to the rescue, turbo charging and empowering your React application with style. React server components were introduced three years ago, providing an easy-to-maintain and quick-to-build solution with improved metrics and user experience. By using server-side rendering, there is no need to download code to the client at startup. Server components reduce the cost of attractions and provide a unified solution. The future of React server components includes improving state synchronization, allowing server components to re-render in response to state changes, and enabling fluid UI updates without page refresh.

1. Introduction to React Server Components

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Welcome to the server components to the rescue, turbo charging and empowering your React application with style. React server components were introduced three years ago, providing an easy-to-maintain and quick-to-build solution with improved metrics and user experience. By using server-side rendering, there is no need to download code to the client at startup.

Welcome to the server components to the rescue, turbo charging and empowering your React application with style.

Who I am? I am Phillipa Perez Ponce, I am software engineer and frontend lockads and volume sharing. And today I will like to speak about React server components.

Before that, almost three years ago, especially in December 21st, 2020, the React team first introduced us to the React server components. Before that, we knew the interaction between server and client. As we have the data in the server, we have the UI interactions in the client. So, we started to use client side rendering, and the client side rendering is like this. We have a server, we have a device, and we ask to the server about the page. And HTML, we ask for the bundle, and JavaScript, CSS, return the bundle. And we saw the bundle, we do all the things, and we ask the data. And return the data. And finish in render the page.

This look like our first paint, our page interactives. It's okay. Our full content, full paint. It's not so good. It's a little really expensive. Our metrics are not good. Our users don't have a good experience. They suffer. We suffer. Our paint increase. So we try different tools, different architectures, different rendering. For what? To avoid this to try to have better metrics, to try to have better, better experience.

Better user experience. So that day, React server components bring us with an idea, free ideas. Easy to maintain, quick to build, improved metrics, improved user experience. And you can use it in your favorite rendering. And what are the benefits? Why are you using that for these free ideas only? No, we are using this because it has better advantage. As we are using the server, there is no code that you need to download to the client at the startup time.

2. Introduction to React Server Components - Part 2

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So also you can apply formatting to the data. Full access to the backend. Automatic spreading with less code. Non-client server waterfall eliminates the need for separate requests. Server components reduce the cost of attractions and provide a unified solution. React Server components consist of client and server components.

So also you can apply a formatting in the data. You can do a format to the data, string, date. What is next? Full access to the backend. As you are using the server, you can use microservice, you can use the file system, you can use the database without cost to the start time.

Automatic spreading. This is because, previously, we used the lazy import, we used the dynamic import, and, right now, you only need to do is import Lala from Lala, and you have voila! You do automatically, and without much code. Even with less code.

Non-client server waterfall! This is because we eliminate the wrong type. So, you have this that is okay. You have the HTML. You have the bundle. Go to the bundle and go with the data. So, then, this time, is build the thing and build the page. So, you don't have this, okay, I need the bundle. I need the data. And you have all in one request.

Avoid attraction tasks. This is because server components reduce the cost of attractions. You can put all the logic, the product logic in the server, and you can have several layers of the attractions. And this only brings to the client that all these render elements for the client is ready. So the view is more look and feel and nice to have in a way that you have only that pure rendering. And the same challenge in Unified Solutions, you have the same code for solution. You have the same code for in the server, you have the same code in the client. So you don't need to have a different language for the server and for the client. You can have all in one place.

First, we spoke about our React Server components. We spoke about the benefits, and right now who is React Server components? We have client components that lives in the clients, lives in the browser. And we have the server components, which lives in the servers. This is our first part of the situation in the React Server component, our React components and client components. This is a note.