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As far as I’m concerned, SSR is completely over-hyped and adds a ton of complexity to your project. All these search indexers are all running headless chrome anyway so the SEO argument is largely false now.

Running vite and deploying a fully static site that interacts with an API is, to me, vastly simpler to reason about than a blackbox react framework (next.js) sitting on top of a black box rendering library (react).

Having a “backend for your frontend” is pure overhead for most projects. I’ve been building on the FE for a decade and have only needed SSR once and certainly never needed some hybrid static/dynamic/islands setup.

If you need SSR, you need it, but I find SPAs to be vastly superior in terms of dev speed and overall performance of an app once the JS has loaded.