From the course: Master Next.js: Elaborate Hands-On Web Development, React Basics, Advanced Next.js, and Deployment

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What is rendering in Next.js?

What is rendering in Next.js?

OK, so the whole buildup of visiting the essentials of a client versus the server for front end development takes us to rendering and when we talk about rendering where we're talking about, it's the process of transforming our code that we've created in react into that UI. So those you know like actually seeing the buttons appear. It's the visualization of it that you're going to see those graphics that appear elements for the user. So that's rendering, and rendering is that transformation. And that transformation is such an important part of development, all right? It's very important. So the first thing I want to tell you, because this could be a common question for junior developers, when you talk about rendering, you might think intuitively, Well, wouldn't the rendering happen on the browser, on the client side, because that's where the browser exists? Well, when we talk about rendering occurring on the server side, absolutely not. Rendering can occur on the client side or the…

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