[lordofgibbons]

Thanks for taking the time to reply, but I'm still not really understanding the benefit.

Type safety is incredibly important if you're lots of logic in a language, which is why TS is great for SPAs. Does the type safety of TS get you anything if you're just doing SSR with not a whole lot of logic in TS? All of your application logic will be on the Python side of things.

>You also have the option of doing SSR and then doing more dynamic stuff on the client side

Isn't this just the old-school way of doing things before SPAs came around? i.e you render the page on the server and then add dynamics features using JS. I think the new way of doing this is with htmx, hotwire, etc.

[moomoo11]

I think the biggest benefit of SSR is you get the first page fully rendered out (good for SEO), and beyond that page the react SPA takes over by doing all the cool client side stuff like routing and what-not.

The biggest benefit for SSR in my opinion is SEO + first load is fast because its already generated. After that though, its just the plain old SPA experience.