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Mikhail Sakhniuk
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Mikhail Sakhniuk is Software Engineer with high proficiency in JavaScript, React and React Native. He has more than 5 years of experience in developing web and mobile applications. He has worked for startups, fintech companies, and product companies with more than 20 million users. Currently, Mikhail is working at Miro as a Frontend Engineer. In addition, he owns and maintains a few open-source projects. He also shares his experience and knowledge through books and articles.
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Adam Boduch has been involved in large-scale JavaScript development for nearly 15 years. Before moving to the frontend, he worked on several large-scale cloud computing products using Python and Linux. No stranger to complexity, Adam has practical experience with real-world software systems and the scaling challenges they pose.
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React Server Components

React Server Components represent a new paradigm for working with components in Next.js that eliminates isomorphic JavaScript. The code of such components runs only on a server and can be cached as a result. In this concept, you can directly read the server’s filesystem or access the database from the components.

In Next.js, React Server Components allow you to categorize components into two types: server-side and client-side. Server-side components are processed on a server and sent to the client as static HTML, reducing the load on the browser. Client-side components still have all the capabilities of browser JavaScript but with one requirement: you need to use the use client directive at the beginning of the file.

To use server-side components in Next.js, you will need to create a new project. For routing, you still use files, but now, the main folder for the project is the app folder, and route names are based solely on folder names. Inside...

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Published in: Apr 2024Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781805127307

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Mikhail Sakhniuk

Mikhail Sakhniuk is Software Engineer with high proficiency in JavaScript, React and React Native. He has more than 5 years of experience in developing web and mobile applications. He has worked for startups, fintech companies, and product companies with more than 20 million users. Currently, Mikhail is working at Miro as a Frontend Engineer. In addition, he owns and maintains a few open-source projects. He also shares his experience and knowledge through books and articles.
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Adam Boduch

Adam Boduch has been involved in large-scale JavaScript development for nearly 15 years. Before moving to the frontend, he worked on several large-scale cloud computing products using Python and Linux. No stranger to complexity, Adam has practical experience with real-world software systems and the scaling challenges they pose.
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