is the polls demo really server side?

[yanv1991]

This is more like a question rather than reporting an issue, but essentially we are noticing in our app that usequery hook is fetching the data in the client side rather than ssr. I was checking this demo https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-client-nextjs/tree/main/examples/polls-demo and I noticed if you disable js in this url https://apollo-next-13-polls.vercel.app/cc the data is not shown.

My question is should I fetch this data rather using a RSC?? My dilemma is, we are using paginated data so not sure if I should fetch the initial data in RSC and later concatenate the rest on the fly when user scroll down.

Thanks in advance for the help....

[phryneas]

That page is not using RSC, but React's "Streaming SSR" in a client component. That means that on first load, everything on that page will be rendered on the server - but the server doesn't wait for everything to be ready to send it to the browser, but it sends it over chunk-by-chunk.
And that means that you need JavaScript enabled to "puzzle together" these server-rendered chunks.
If you look at the network tab, you'll still see that no network requests are made for the client (for the first load) - because those were made on the server and rendered on the server.

So yes, it's server-side. Just a lot more complex version of "SSR" as you knew from the past.

[phryneas]

I'm doing some housekeeping so I'm closing some older issues that haven't seen activity in a while.
If this is still relevant, please feel free to reopen the issue.

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