The article explores the concept of Extreme Server Side Rendering (XSSR) by first reviewing traditional old-school and new-school SSR approaches, then investigating what happens when HTTP responses are sent at extremely slow, human-paced rates. It uses a netcat-based demo to illustrate how browsers handle character-by-character HTML delivery.
Background
Server-side rendering (SSR) is a well-established web development technique where HTML is generated on the server rather than in the browser. This article takes an experimental approach to push SSR concepts to an extreme.
- Source
- Lobsters
- Published
- Sep 8, 2026 at 06:54 PM
- Score
- 5.0 / 10