Unlike server-side rendering, React Server Components aim to fully replace client-side functionality with work done on the server. Let’s see how this works.

A web app that relies entirely on client-side JavaScript can still exceed the capacity of Google’s Web Rendering Service (WRS), making it difficult for Googlebot to crawl and index content.

Work on React began around late 2011, and the technology was open sourced a year ago. Sometimes identified as ReactJS, the current version is 0.10.