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RQ: Asynchronous server components

RQ: Asynchronous server components - Next.js Tutorial

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RQ: Asynchronous server components

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Let's discuss a question that why do we use the asynchronous server components. So asynchronous server components in Next.js allows us to fetch data and render components on the server before sending the final HTML to the client that is the browser. An asynchronous server component renders faster because the data is fetched and rendered on the server, and it receives the fully rendered HTML. Since it receives the rendered HTML, it helps the SEO performance of the application. Also, asynchronous server components do not require the client to load extra JavaScript for rendering. So it will make the front end more optimized. By using the async server component, we can directly fetch the data on the server. So we do not need the client-side data fetching logic like using the useEffect hook, which reduces the code complexity. In short, asynchronous server components in Next.js improves the performance, SEO, and scalability by rendering the content on the server and sending the generated…

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