Exploring the Use of Suspense and Bundlers in App Development

Ryan shares how building his own RSC implementation from scratch helped him better understand React’s new paradigm. He and Sam talk about how a client React app can fetch an RSC Payload from a server endpoint to update the UI, how an RSC server renders and bundles Client code that’s part of a Server Component tree, and how a client-side Router can be used to fetch new RSC trees based on the URL.

Topics include:

• 0:00 - Intro
• 2:48 - Making a server endpoint that a client React app can use to re-render the UI
• 15:42 - How the bundling step shims Client Components during a server render with a reference that the client app can later use to execute browser code
• 35:16 - How the React Component API unifies server and client functionality in a single composable interface
• 38:54 - How a client-side router can render different server trees based on the URL
• 49:09 - Reference projects used

Links:

• Simple RSC
• Tangle
• Vite RSC
• Next.js