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React Server Components drive me kind of crazy.

"We made a UI framework that slows down web sites unnecessarily... but don't worry! We've now made a massive addition to the framework to mitigate the problem of our own creation! Isn't it wonderful?"

Feels somehow akin to standing in a hole and being given a shovel to dig your way out.

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It's more like "we made a UI framework that speeds up development and runtime of complex apps considerably, though it also slows down initial load of web sites... but don't worry, we have a fix".

Development? Yes. Runtime? Highly debatable. At a bare minimum there are other frameworks with a significantly better runtime performance story than React.

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