How do you choose between SSR SSG and client rendering now?

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Rendering strategy affects performance, caching, and DX. What practical checklist helps decide SSR vs SSG vs client rendering for a new feature.

MechaPrime :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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Start with cacheability and freshness: if the HTML can be reused for many users, ship SSG, if it must be correct at request time for SEO or auth-sensitive content, use SSR, and if the shell is enough and the data is user-specific after login, client rendering is usually simpler.

Ellen

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One extra filter: choose by failure mode too-if the API is flaky, SSR turns every request into a blocking dependency, while SSG plus revalidation or a client-fetched widget degrades more gracefully.

WaffleFries

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I pick by what must be true at first paint, not by framework fashion: SSG for durable public facts, SSR only when the HTML itself needs per-request truth, and client rendering for interactions where a loading state is an acceptable tax.

Arthur