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Really fantastic writeup by @moh-kohn.eurosky.social about the power of HTML-first sites (and @astro.build!) My humble opinion is that 90% of websites don't need Next.js, React, or other hefty client-side frameworks—they just need static pages and the occasional form

Next.js really is a conspiracy to sell more Vercel runtime i stg

I meannnn

maybe dumb question but why is this a problem? this basically means they get inlined into initial HTML (ok maybe a bit silly) and then driven from DOM for new renders. “use client” does NOT mean “exclude me from HTML”

i mean in that case it was, like, static graphics so making them components really felt silly in the first place :p

The problem is that they end up in the client-side JavaScript bundle, in addition to already being in the HTML, right? Also, 1MB of JS is much more expensive to the browser than 1MB of images.

I have added a 'use client' on a static jsx file because I don't want the react flight data in the html. Removing double data in the html. I have had issues from my SEO partners complaining about JSON+LD being twice in the HTML script tag and RSC data.