Stage 13 · Production Skills

Rendering Strategies & Technical SEO

CSR, SSR, SSG, ISR, streaming, and getting found on Google.

weeks at ~2h/day: ~1.5
weeks full-time: ~1

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Why this stage matters

Choosing where and when HTML is generated is one of the most important architectural decisions in a frontend app. It decides your performance, your SEO, and your hosting bill.

What to learn

Must know
Rendering Patterns
Client-side rendering, server-side rendering, static generation, incremental regeneration, streaming, hydration, and islands. Each has a cost.
You're done when
- For any page, you can choose a rendering strategy and defend it.
- You know what hydration costs and how to reduce it.
Resources
- patterns.dev — Rendering PatternsArticle
Must know
Technical SEO
Crawlable HTML, canonical URLs, sitemaps, robots.txt, hreflang for multilingual sites, structured data (JSON-LD), and Open Graph images.
You're done when
- Your important content is in the server HTML, not only after JavaScript runs.
- You have validated structured data with Google's Rich Results Test.
Resources
- Google Search Central — JavaScript SEO basicsDocs
- Rich Results TestPractice

Common mistakes

Building a content site as a client-only SPA and wondering why it doesn't rank.
Making every page dynamic when most of it could be static.

Checkpoint

You can pick the right rendering strategy per route and make a site fully indexable.

Stage project

SEO Audit & Fix

Audit one of your deployed projects for technical SEO and fix everything you find.

Done when

Sitemap, robots.txt, canonical URLs, and unique metadata for every page.
Valid structured data and Open Graph previews.
Submitted to Google Search Console and indexed.

Last reviewed November 2, 2026 · Full roadmap

What to learn

Must know

Rendering Patterns

Client-side rendering, server-side rendering, static generation, incremental regeneration, streaming, hydration, and islands. Each has a cost.

You're done when

For any page, you can choose a rendering strategy and defend it.
You know what hydration costs and how to reduce it.

Resources

patterns.dev — Rendering PatternsArticle

Must know

Technical SEO

Crawlable HTML, canonical URLs, sitemaps, robots.txt, hreflang for multilingual sites, structured data (JSON-LD), and Open Graph images.

You're done when

Your important content is in the server HTML, not only after JavaScript runs.
You have validated structured data with Google's Rich Results Test.