What problem does it solve?
Client-side rendering helps when you need highly interactive UIs without constant server round trips, but still want a responsive experience while JavaScript handles the page content and updates.
Core Features & Use Cases
- Understand CSR behavior: server returns a minimal HTML container while React logic, routing, and data fetching occur in the browser.
- Make practical CSR tradeoffs: choose CSR for dashboards and internal tools, avoid it for SEO-critical pages and content-heavy sites where users would see blank screens until JS loads.
- Improve CSR performance: apply JavaScript budgeting, code splitting, lazy loading, preloading critical scripts, and application-shell caching with service workers.
- Real-world use case: build a real-time internal dashboard that updates prices or statuses without refresh by fetching and rendering data entirely on the client after initial load.
Quick Start
Use the client-side-rendering skill to plan when to use CSR and apply performance techniques like code splitting, lazy loading, and JavaScript bundle budgeting for your React pages.
