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You can! The terms to search for are "isomorphic web apps" and "hydration". It's definitely not a panacea though.

https://react.dev/reference/react-dom/client/hydrateRoot

Hydration is not needed tho, frameworks like Qwik allow isomorphic apps without hydration.

why? what are the main drawbacks? I imagine the complexity, but can you go a little bit into the details for someone with only little frontend experience

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