React has taken a strong turn in the direction of metaframeworks and SSR. These metaframeworks provide a layer of abstraction that aims at improving both DX and UX at the same time.
This abstraction is so good, maybe even too good. These days React devs can easily find themselves asking questions like "where does my code run?" or "in what order does my code run?".
In this talk we're not going to discuss a specific framework like Next.js or Tanstack Router- instead we're going to focus on React and React only.
The purpose of this talk is to walk through the small details to the big picture. From going under React’s hood- how do SSR and CSR really work, what HTTP limitations do we face, what are the common pitfalls and misconceptions.
To the big picture- WHY is React heading in this direction.