JS frameworks and SEO have a rough history. Pre-rendering tends to be the workaround, but Cell's lack of hierarchy might make that more difficult than normal.
How would you work around it?
How would you work around it?
Put it another way, you can create a fully centralized architecture using Cell. One way of doing it is taking advantage of Cell's context inheritance feature https://github.com/intercellular/tutorial#b-context-inherita... but there can be many different ways. The whole point of Cell is to exist as a minimal decentralized framework which you can utilize to do things your way.
The benefit is you have the ability to create a completely decentralized DOM tree, as well as create a centralized one.
As for the SEO issue, I have two answers:
1. Pre-rendering on Cell is just a matter of transforming JSON into HTML (but instead of using something like JSDOM on to create an entire DOM on the server-side, you could just directly map the JSON into HTML. I actually have a piece of code that does that as well but haven't released it yet.
2. Handling pre-render is simpler than other frameworks because Cell can seamlessly plug into an existing DOM tree https://github.com/intercellular/cell#b-plug-into-existing-w... (it's actually one of the selling points of Cell because no other framework makes this easy. If you have a static website and just want to integrate a dynamic widget, there's no simple way to do so using most of the popular frameworks because all of them basically take over the entire frontend and you have to switch to that framework entirely just to add that widget, or you need to use webpack, browserify, etc. to package them up just so you can use it on the frontend as a bundle.js. This is also not the most user-friendly way. Cell makes this super easy because there is no dependency and no code packing process)
Hope this answers your question!