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Not necessarily, because you have to consider the entire lifecycle.

When doing frontend rendering you usually work against a REST(ful) API to fetch data, the idea is to reuse endpoints for multiple frontend components, because of this generalization you usually end up sending more data than necessary, not only between the database and the backend, but also between the backend and the frontend.

And not only that, you start doing JOINs over HTTP and JavaScript.

With server side rendering I can write an exact SQL query to render that component.