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Comment by 1123581321

3 years ago

You just said it: if your HTML delivers a react app that hasn’t taken the extra steps to be SSR, then the crawler has to run the JS in order to index the content instead of just parsing the HTML response.

Modern component libraries make it harder to write the site in a non-indexable way than to just make it easy to index.

  • Only as a user of Next and similar renderers. The default in the larger web application world is to ship an empty target element and a JS bundle.