By default, Electrode uses Server Side Render, which means that the rendering happens on the nodejs server and delivers the browser HTML (so we are in good shape for SEO). That capability is one of the key reasons (but not only reasons) we decided to go with React.

A lot of our modules focus on making that server side render more performant.

Specifically:

http://www.electrode.io/docs/above_fold_rendering.html

http://www.electrode.io/docs/server_side_render_cache.html

http://www.electrode.io/docs/redux_router_engine.html