# Server-Side Rendering (SSR) Server side rendering is useful to: - Render the first page quickly - Avoid long initial page load times The server-side generates the initial page and serves it to the client. On the client, the [[Single Page Application (SPA)]] takes over from there. SSR is different from the old-school MVC approach where the server was smart and the client-side was considered a dumb renderer. With SSR, not all page loads necessarily have to hit the server side.