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Server Components and the React paradigm

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Is There a Paradigm for React Server Components?

The point of react is to have a single paradigm for building UI and Building parts of UI that makes sense to do on the server. To do on the client use client client features interactivity Animation all that good stuff now you might be looking at this and arguing with me about it. The whole point of react in the first place is that if you give me a component to import I know how to render it angle brackets and text. That's all I have to do your component could re render when the user Changes the screen size or turns off their Wi-Fi or crosses a time zoneI don't care how that mess is implemented. You've given me a declarative component boundary that

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