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Discussion on: If no SSR/SSG planned, is it wrong to go with Next.js ?

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You may never need to do SSR. The only real benefit is faster time to paint for the initial page view. Unless that is really important for your application, then I would stay away from it because of all the added complexity. The other often cited benefit of SSR is better SEO and supporting page previews on third party websites (e.g. linking a page on Twitter). But, you can also achieve this by prerendering your pages in a headless browser only for those bot user agents (check out rendertron or prerender.io).