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| 2 | title: Rendering Strategies
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| 3 | order: 4
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| 4 | ---
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| 6 | # Rendering Strategies
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| 8 | [MODES: framework]
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| 9 |
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| 10 | ## Introduction
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| 11 |
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| 12 | There are three rendering strategies in React Router:
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| 14 | - Client Side Rendering
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| 15 | - Server Side Rendering
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| 16 | - Static Pre-rendering
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| 17 |
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| 18 | ## Client Side Rendering
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| 20 | Routes are always client side rendered as the user navigates around the app. If you're looking to build a Single Page App, disable server rendering:
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| 21 |
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| 22 | ```ts filename=react-router.config.ts
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| 23 | import type { Config } from "@react-router/dev/config";
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| 24 |
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| 25 | export default {
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| 26 | ssr: false,
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| 27 | } satisfies Config;
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| 28 | ```
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| 29 |
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| 30 | ## Server Side Rendering
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| 31 |
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| 32 | ```ts filename=react-router.config.ts
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| 33 | import type { Config } from "@react-router/dev/config";
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| 34 |
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| 35 | export default {
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| 36 | ssr: true,
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| 37 | } satisfies Config;
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| 38 | ```
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| 40 | Server side rendering requires a deployment that supports it. Though it's a global setting, individual routes can still be statically pre-rendered. Routes can also use client data loading with `clientLoader` to avoid server rendering/fetching for their portion of the UI.
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| 41 |
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| 42 | ## Static Pre-rendering
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| 43 |
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| 44 | ```ts filename=react-router.config.ts
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| 45 | import type { Config } from "@react-router/dev/config";
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| 46 |
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| 47 | export default {
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| 48 | // return a list of URLs to prerender at build time
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| 49 | async prerender() {
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| 50 | return ["/", "/about", "/contact"];
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| 51 | },
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| 52 | } satisfies Config;
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| 53 | ```
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| 55 | Pre-rendering is a build-time operation that generates static HTML and client navigation data payloads for a list of URLs. This is useful for SEO and performance, especially for deployments without server rendering. When pre-rendering, route module loaders are used to fetch data at build time.
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| 57 | ---
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| 58 |
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| 59 | Next: [Data Loading](./data-loading)
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