Engineering
Shipping production code from a visual canvas
How Plus UI turns what you compose into typed, tree-shaken React and Web Components — ready to deploy, not to throw away.
Hilal Tasdan
Server components, in plain terms
What actually ships to the browser, what stays on the server, and why the default matters for a fast page.
A server component renders on the server and sends HTML. It ships no JavaScript of its own. A client component ships its code so it can be interactive in the browser.
The default is the lever
Make components server by default and opt into client only where interaction lives. The page weight then tracks what’s interactive, not what’s on screen.
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