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Discussion on: Is Next JS really that good?

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Dewald Els

To my limited understanding, next.js, like you mentioned is aimed at server side rendering. SSR improves SEO and indexing of your application significantly as crawlers can see the content. For client side rendered app the crawler will see an empty page.

Please correct me if Iā€™m wrong šŸ˜…

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Dendi Handian

Is there any way or tools to tell a react app is SEO-friendly?

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Zikitel22 • Edited

For low to medium complexity projects google ligthouse is enough imho
on more enterprisy sites you usually have dedicated SEO team with dedicated tools