Building Blocks of High Performance Hydrogen-powered Storefronts - Shopify
Nov 8, 2021

Summary
This post details the use of streaming server-side rendering (SSR) with React's Suspense API for faster TTFB and progressive hydration. It also introduces React Server Components (RSC) for improved performance and reduced bundle sizes, and discusses efficient data fetching with built-in caching primitives and configurable cache policies for the Storefront API. The post emphasizes combining dynamic server-side rendering with edge delivery and client-side fetching based on page and component-level decisions.
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