I always hear people state that #SSR is needed for #SEO, but I'm not convinced that's true in 2024.
#Vercel just did an investigation into this and seems to confirm my suspicions: #Google renders #CSR / #SPA apps and indexes their content just fine.
https://vercel.com/blog/how-google-handles-javascript-throughout-the-indexing-process
There are a few caveats for sure, and I'd love to see similar data on other search engines, but this is probably a good baseline.
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