Rendering React components/pages on the server-side is not a new topic, there are a lot of frameworks / libraries built specificly for this purpose. In fact, too many that it makes me very confused, what I want is a really simple way to just render the React page and also re-use the same routes. So, after looking into several popular solutions, I decided to just roll my custom setup with vitejs which is something I have been using at work for several months.

We have recently updated to React 16.8 after more than 1 year stuck with the old version. The process was surprisingly pleasant, in fact, I accidentally updated our React version to 16.8 and we didn’t notice it for 1 week, nothing broken as we have gradually got rid of all the legacy stuff. Now that we have updated to 16.8, the fun officially begins. I have been a regular guest in the refactory hotel recently and I decided to write down some interesting cases I have encountered during my journey.