The Costs of SSR in Next.js

Frontend First

Sam and Ryan talk about how Next.js places an upfront cost on app teams for the sake of scalability and server-side rendering, and how to avoid this cost when building apps with user-specific data where SSR is not a priority. They also talk about avoiding Context for global state in React apps.

Topics include:

• 0:00 – Intro
• 1:51 – Avoiding Context for global state in React
• 22:22 – Safeguarding _app in Next.js & dynamic segments in the router

Links:

• Sebastian’s tweet on not using context for global state
• Zustand