@rsc-kit/mcp 0.14.0 → 0.16.0

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  1. package/dist/answers.d.ts +7 -0
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  11. package/dist/report.d.ts +13 -0
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  14. package/guides/api-routes.md +168 -0
  15. package/guides/authorization.md +288 -0
  16. package/guides/caching.md +57 -0
  17. package/guides/coming-from-next.md +151 -0
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  19. package/guides/edge-caching.md +159 -0
  20. package/guides/errors.md +109 -0
  21. package/guides/file-uploads.md +119 -0
  22. package/guides/fonts.md +117 -0
  23. package/guides/forms.md +528 -0
  24. package/guides/getting-started.md +132 -0
  25. package/guides/images.md +83 -0
  26. package/guides/index.json +187 -0
  27. package/guides/installation.md +338 -0
  28. package/guides/introduction.md +119 -0
  29. package/guides/mcp.md +113 -0
  30. package/guides/metadata.md +289 -0
  31. package/guides/navigation.md +84 -0
  32. package/guides/no-javascript.md +76 -0
  33. package/guides/offline.md +215 -0
  34. package/guides/ppr.md +181 -0
  35. package/guides/pwa.md +260 -0
  36. package/guides/queries.md +340 -0
  37. package/guides/quick-start.md +99 -0
  38. package/guides/react-compiler.md +153 -0
  39. package/guides/redirects.md +143 -0
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  41. package/guides/route-interception.md +206 -0
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  44. package/guides/server-actions.md +444 -0
  45. package/guides/static-generation.md +347 -0
  46. package/guides/testing.md +158 -0
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  48. package/guides/typed-routes.md +139 -0
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+ # Introduction
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+
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+ > React Server Components as a Vite plugin, deployed wherever you like.
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+
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+ `rsc-kit` is a Vite plugin that gives you React Server Components. You write
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+ pages, layouts and server actions the way you would in the Next.js App Router;
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+ it renders them, streams the HTML, and turns links into navigations that replace
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+ only the part of the page that changed.
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+
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+ It brings no build system of its own — it is a Vite plugin — and it does not
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+ write a server for you either. [Nitro](https://nitro.build) builds one around
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+ your route tree, so where an app runs is a preset: Bun, Node, a Cloudflare
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+ Worker, Vercel, Netlify, Deno.
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+
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+ ## What an app looks like
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+
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+ ```text
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+ src/app/
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+ layout.tsx the document — <html>, <head>, <body>
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+ loading.tsx Suspense fallback for everything below
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+ page.tsx GET /
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+ posts/
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+ [slug]/
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+ page.tsx GET /posts/:slug
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+ @modal/
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+ default.tsx a parallel slot, empty until something fills it
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+ ```
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+
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+ Nothing registers those files. The plugin reads the directory at build time and
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+ generates the entry that knows about them.
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+
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+ ```tsx title="src/app/posts/[slug]/page.tsx"
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+ import { findPost } from '../../../data'
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+
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+ export default async function PostPage({ params }: { params: Promise<{ slug: string }> }) {
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+ const { slug } = await params
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+ const post = await findPost(slug)
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+
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+ if (!post) return <h1>No such post</h1>
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+
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+ return (
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+ <article>
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+ <h1>{post.title}</h1>
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+ <p>{post.body}</p>
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+ </article>
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+ )
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+ }
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+ ```
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+
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+ A server component is an ordinary async function. It imports its data module
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+ directly, and neither the module nor its secrets reach the browser.
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+
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+ ## What you get
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+
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+ <CardGrid>
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+ <Card title="Streaming, not waterfalls" icon="ph:waves">
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+ The shell paints before the data resolves. Suspense boundaries fill in as
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+ they finish, in whatever order they finish.
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+ </Card>
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+ <Card title="Navigations that keep the page" icon="ph:arrows-left-right">
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+ A navigation sends the layout chain it already has, and the server answers
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+ with only the part that changed. Scroll, focus and half-typed forms survive.
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+ </Card>
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+ <Card title="Parallel routes and interception" icon="ph:frame-corners">
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+ `@slot` directories render alongside the page. `(.)folder` opens a route as
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+ a modal over the page you were on, and as a real page on refresh.
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+ </Card>
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+ <Card title="Server actions" icon="ph:lightning">
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+ `"use server"` makes an async function callable from a client component.
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+ The body never ships; the call becomes one POST.
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+ </Card>
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+ <Card title="Queries, without an endpoint" icon="ph:magnifying-glass">
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+ `query()` marks a read. It travels as a GET, so it can be cached and
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+ prefetched — and reads that happen together leave as one request.
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+ </Card>
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+ <Card title="Frozen where it can be" icon="ph:snowflake">
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+ Pages that ask for nothing dynamic are rendered at build time. Pages that do
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+ get their shell frozen and their data streamed.
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+ </Card>
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+ <Card title="An export target" icon="ph:folder-open">
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+ The same app can build to a directory of files and be served by anything —
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+ including a CDN with no origin at all.
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+ </Card>
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+ </CardGrid>
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+
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+ ## Where it runs
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+
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+ You do not write a server. [Nitro](https://nitro.build) builds one from your
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+ route tree, and where it runs is one line in your Vite config:
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+
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+ ```ts title="vite.config.ts"
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+ nitro({ preset: 'bun' })
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+ ```
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+
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+ Swap the preset for `node`, `cloudflare_module`, `vercel`, `netlify` or `deno`
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+ and the same app deploys there instead. The build produces a `.output`
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+ directory; nothing else changes.
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+
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+ ## What it is not
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+
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+ <Aside type="note" title="No data layer, no CSS pipeline, no dev server of its own">
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+ The build runs your project's Vite config, so Tailwind, PostCSS and the rest
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+ are configured the way they are in any Vite app. Data access is an import.
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+ There is no `getServerSideProps` equivalent, and no request context to learn.
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+ </Aside>
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+
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+ ## Where to go next
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+
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+ <CardGrid>
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+ <Card title="Getting started" icon="ph:play">
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+ [Build and deploy your first app →](/getting-started)
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+ </Card>
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+ <Card title="Routing" icon="ph:tree-structure">
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+ [Pages, layouts, slots and navigation →](/guides/routing)
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+ </Card>
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+ <Card title="How it works" icon="ph:gear">
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+ [What happens between a request and a page →](/reference/how-it-works)
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+ </Card>
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+ </CardGrid>
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+ # Working with an AI agent
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+
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+ > An MCP server that answers from your actual build, and the AGENTS.md written into every project.
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+
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+ Two things ship for this, and they do different jobs.
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+
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+ `AGENTS.md` is written into your project by the scaffold. It is short on
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+ purpose — it sits in an agent's context on every turn, so it states the rules
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+ and nothing more.
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+
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+ The **MCP server** is for everything that does not fit in that budget: what your
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+ build actually did, and the long-form answer to "how do I do X here".
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+
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+ ## Connecting it
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+
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+ The scaffold already did. Every project gets a `.mcp.json` at its root:
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+
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+ ```json title=".mcp.json"
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+ {
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+ "mcpServers": {
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+ "rsc-kit": { "command": "npx", "args": ["-y", "@rsc-kit/mcp"] }
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+ }
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+ }
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+ ```
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+
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+ Claude Code reads that as project-scoped configuration and asks you to approve
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+ it the first time it starts the server. Nothing is installed until then, and
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+ nothing about your build or dev server changes — it is a file an agent reads.
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+ Commit it; it is the same for everyone on the project.
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+
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+ For a project that predates the file, `create-rsc-kit init` writes it (and
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+ leaves one that is already there alone), or add it by hand:
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+
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+ ```sh
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+ claude mcp add rsc-kit -- npx -y @rsc-kit/mcp
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+ ```
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+
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+ Any other MCP client takes the same entry — a stdio server, command `npx`,
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+ arguments `-y @rsc-kit/mcp` — in its own file: `.cursor/mcp.json` under
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+ `mcpServers`, `.vscode/mcp.json` under `servers`.
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+
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+ ## What it answers about your app
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+
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+ Every build writes `build-report.json` — the same rows it printed, plus every
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+ server action and whether a client built it. These read
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+ it, so nothing runs a build or imports your code:
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+
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+ | tool | answers |
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+ | --- | --- |
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+ | `list_routes` | every route, what happened to it, what it ships |
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+ | `explain_route` | why one url is stored or rendered per request |
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+ | `what_is_dynamic` | the routes that are not stored, with reasons |
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+ | `heaviest_routes` | what costs the browser most |
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+
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+ The reason a page is dynamic is **recorded, not guessed**:
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+
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+ ```
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+ /locale — a stored shell, with the rest rendered per request (from the last build, 5 minutes ago)
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+ Rendered by app/locale/page.
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+ Ships 85 kB of javascript, gzipped.
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+ Why it is not stored whole: dynamic — called cookies(), headers()
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+ ```
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+
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+ That matters more than it sounds. Asked to "make this page faster", an agent
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+ without this guesses at a cause and edits something. With it, the call that did
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+ it is on the screen.
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+
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+ ## What it answers about the framework
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+
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+ | tool | answers |
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+ | --- | --- |
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+ | `list_topics` | every topic it can explain |
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+ | `how_to` | the short answer: forms, prefetch, validation, the action client, data with TanStack Query or SWR, Suspense, offline, pwa, no-javascript, api routes, authorization, why a page is dynamic |
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+ | `list_guides` | every guide on this site, one line each |
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+ | `read_guide` | the full text of one, exactly as published here — bundled with the server, so it matches the version installed |
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+ | `search_guides` | every line in the guides mentioning a word, with the guide it is in |
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+
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+ `how_to` is the opinionated summary an agent should read first; `read_guide`
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+ is for when the summary is not enough. Both come from the same source, and the
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+ guides are copied in at build time, so what an agent reads is what this site
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+ says for the version it has.
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+ These exist because the patterns here differ from Next and plain React **in
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+ ways that compile either way** — a check written in the component instead of the
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+ action, a hand-parsed query string, `"use server"` at the top of a page. An
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+ agent that has not been told writes those confidently.
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+
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+ ## Two things worth knowing
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+ **Every answer says how old it is.** It reports the last build, and your files
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+ may have changed since — so `(from the last build, 5 minutes ago)` is on every
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+ response. With no build at all it says to run one, rather than reporting that
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+ there are no routes.
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+ **It is read-only.** Nothing here edits, builds or deploys. Your agent already
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+ has a shell for those, and a server that can change a project is one that can
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+ change it while answering a question about it.
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+ ## The docs are markdown too
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+ Every page on this site is also a markdown file at the same url with
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+ `index.md` added — `/guides/forms/index.md` — and
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+ [`/llms.txt`](/llms.txt) is an index of all of them, with
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+ [`/llms-full.txt`](/llms-full.txt) as one document. An agent without the MCP
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+ server, or one asked about a version other than the one installed, reads
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+ those. `read_guide` is the same text, offline, at the installed version.
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+
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+ ## Without an agent
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+ `build-report.json` is an ordinary file. A CI step can assert on it — that
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+ nothing stopped being prerendered, that no route crossed a size budget — which
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+ is the check most likely to catch a regression nobody would otherwise see.
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+ # Page metadata
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+ > Titles, descriptions and Open Graph tags, exported from the page.
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+ Titles and meta tags are exported by the page that needs them. There is no
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+ document template to edit and nothing to register — React hoists the resulting
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+ elements into `<head>`, so they stream with the page rather than waiting for
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+ it.
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+
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+ ## Static metadata
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+
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+ ```tsx title="src/app/about/page.tsx"
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+ export const metadata: Metadata = {
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+ title: 'About us',
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+ description: 'Learn more about our team.',
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+ keywords: ['about', 'team', 'company'],
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+ openGraph: {
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+ title: 'About us',
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+ description: 'Learn more about our team.',
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+ },
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+ };
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+
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+ export default function AboutPage() {
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+ return <h1>About us</h1>;
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+ }
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+ ```
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+ `Metadata` is imported from the package:
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+ ```tsx
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+ import type { Metadata } from '@rsc-kit/core/metadata';
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+ ```
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+ It used to be ambient, written into your project by the build. An import
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+ resolves as soon as dependencies are installed, where a generated file does not
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+ exist until something has been built once — so a freshly cloned project no
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+ longer reports an error on every page it has not built yet.
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+
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+ :::tip[Custom meta tags go under `other`]
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+ ```tsx
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+ export const metadata: Metadata = {
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+ title: 'Pricing',
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+ other: { 'fb:app_id': '1234', 'theme-color': '#111' },
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+ };
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+ ```
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+
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+ The named keys are a closed set on purpose. When any key was legal, a typo like
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+ `titel` was accepted in silence — and your editor offered no completions at
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+ all.
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+ :::
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+
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+ ## Metadata from data
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+ When the values depend on what the page loaded, export `generateMetadata`. It
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+ receives the route params:
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+
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+ ```tsx title="src/app/posts/[slug]/page.tsx"
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+ import { findPost } from '../../../data';
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+
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+ export const generateMetadata: GenerateMetadata<{ slug: string }> = async ({ params }) => {
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+ const { slug } = await params;
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+ const post = await findPost(slug);
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+
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+ return {
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+ title: post.title,
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+ description: post.excerpt,
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+ openGraph: { title: post.title, description: post.excerpt, images: post.cover },
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+ };
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+ };
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+
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+ export default async function PostPage({ params }: { params: Promise<{ slug: string }> }) {
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+ const { slug } = await params;
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+ const post = await findPost(slug);
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+
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+ return <h1>{post.title}</h1>;
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+ }
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+ ```
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+ It receives the same `params` and `searchParams` a page does, so there is one
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+ shape to learn rather than two. Unlike a page's, these always resolve — a
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+ `<title>` has no fallback, so there is nothing to suspend into.
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+ Metadata always resolves against the **full** layout chain, even when the
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+ render is partial. A navigation that replaces one segment still produces the
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+ same `<title>` a full load would, because the template on the outer layout is
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+ consulted either way.
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+ ## Title templates
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+ A layout can define the shape every title beneath it takes. `%s` stands in for
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+ the page's own title:
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+
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+ ```tsx title="src/app/layout.tsx"
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+ export const metadata: Metadata = {
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+ title: {
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+ template: '%s | Acme',
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+ default: 'Acme',
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+ },
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+ description: 'The Acme dashboard.',
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+ };
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+ ```
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+ ```tsx title="src/app/settings/page.tsx"
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+ export const metadata: Metadata = { title: 'Settings' };
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+ // <title>Settings | Acme</title>
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+ ```
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+ The nearest layout with a template wins, so a nested layout can override the
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+ one above it. A page that exports no title gets the `default`.
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+ ## Supported keys
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+ | Key | Becomes |
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+ | --- | --- |
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+ | `title` | `<title>` — a string on a page, a template on a layout |
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+ | `description` | `<meta name="description">` |
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+ | `keywords` | `<meta name="keywords">`, joined with commas if you pass an array |
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+ | `author` | `<meta name="author">` |
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+ | `robots` | `<meta name="robots">` |
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+ | `metadataBase` | nothing itself — it is what makes every relative url below absolute |
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+ | `openGraph` | `<meta property="og:…">`, one per field; each image brings its size and alt |
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+ | `twitter` | `<meta name="twitter:…">` |
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+ | `icons` | `<link rel="icon">`, `apple-touch-icon` and so on |
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+ | `other` | `<meta name="…">`, or `property=` for an `og:`/`fb:`/`article:` key |
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+ | anything else | `<meta name="…">` |
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+ `keywords` takes either form — `'react, rsc'` and `['react', 'rsc']` produce
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+ the same tag.
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+ The flat spellings — `'og:title'`, `'twitter:card'` — still work and render
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+ correctly, but the structured objects are the ones to write: they are typed,
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+ they take an image object with a width and height, and they are what a Next
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+ app already has.
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+ ## The share card
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+ ```tsx title="src/app/layout.tsx"
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+ export const metadata: Metadata = {
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+ metadataBase: new URL('https://remorva.com'),
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+ openGraph: {
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+ siteName: 'Remorva',
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+ type: 'website',
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+ },
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+ twitter: {
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+ card: 'summary_large_image',
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+ site: '@remorva',
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+ },
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+ };
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+ ```
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+ ```tsx title="src/app/posts/[slug]/page.tsx"
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+ export async function generateMetadata({ params }): Promise<Metadata> {
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+ const post = await findPost((await params).slug);
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+ return {
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+ title: post.title,
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+ openGraph: {
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+ title: post.title,
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+ description: post.excerpt,
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+ url: `/posts/${post.slug}`,
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+ images: [{ url: post.cover, width: 1200, height: 630, alt: post.title }],
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+ },
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+ };
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+ }
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+ ```
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+ Layouts merge outward-in, so `metadataBase`, `siteName` and the card type are
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+ A share-card scraper needs an **absolute** image url. Facebook, Slack and
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+ LinkedIn all refuse a relative one, silently — the link unfurls with no image
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+ and nothing says why.
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+ Set `metadataBase` on the root layout and every relative `url`, image and icon
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+ below it is made absolute. Without it, an `opengraph-image.png` in `app/` goes
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+ out as `/_app/opengraph-image.png`, which works in a browser and nowhere else.
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+ It is the same name as Next's, so a port carries it across unchanged.
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+ :::
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+ `og:` tags render with `property=` and `twitter:` with `name=`, because that is
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+ what each scraper reads. It is worth stating because it is easy to get
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+ backwards, and a tag with the wrong attribute is not an error — it is a card
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+ that never shows.
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+ ## Icons
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+ A string, a list, or a categorised object:
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+ ```tsx
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+ // One favicon
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+ export const metadata: Metadata = { icons: '/favicon.ico' };
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+ // Several, with attributes
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+ export const metadata: Metadata = {
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+ icons: [
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+ { url: '/favicon.ico', sizes: '32x32' },
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+ { url: '/icon-192.png', sizes: '192x192', type: 'image/png' },
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+ ],
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+ };
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+ // By role
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+ export const metadata: Metadata = {
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+ icons: {
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+ icon: '/favicon.ico',
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+ apple: '/apple-touch-icon.png',
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+ other: { rel: 'mask-icon', url: '/safari-pinned-tab.svg', color: '#5bbad5' },
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+ },
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+ };
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+ ```
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+ Each descriptor takes `url`, `type`, `sizes`, `color`, `rel`, `media` and
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+ `fetchPriority`.
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+ ## How it reaches the document
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+ ```text
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+ Build the plugin finds the metadata exports and generates a resolver
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+ Render the resolver runs alongside the page, against the full layout chain
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+ Load React hoists <title> and <meta> into <head> as they are emitted
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+ Navigate the resolved metadata rides on the X-RSC-Meta header, and the
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+ client updates document.title and the tags in place
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+ ```
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+ The last line is why a title is correct after an SPA navigation without the
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+ page having been re-rendered from the root.
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+ ## Icons and share images
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+ Put them in `src/app/` and the build finds them. There is nothing to register
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+ and no layout to edit:
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+ | file | what it becomes |
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+ | --- | --- |
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+ | `favicon.ico` | served at `/favicon.ico` |
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+ | `icon.png`, `icon-192.png`, `icon-512.png` | `<link rel="icon">`, and the [manifest](/guides/offline/)'s icons |
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+ | `apple-icon.png` | `<link rel="apple-touch-icon">` |
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+ | `opengraph-image.png` | `<meta property="og:image">` |
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+ | `twitter-image.png` | `<meta name="twitter:image">`, with the large-card type |
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+ The names are Next's. There is nothing to gain from inventing different ones —
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+ an app moving between the two should not have to rename its favicon.
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+ **Sizes are read from the filename**, so `icon-192.png` needs no entry anywhere
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+ saying it is 192 pixels. Which is why a manifest usually lists no icons at all:
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+ ```ts title="src/app/manifest.ts"
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+ export default {
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+ name: 'Orders',
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+ themeColor: '#0b0b0c',
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+ // icons omitted — the build uses the icon-*.png beside this file
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+ } satisfies WebManifest
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+ ```
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+ Listing them as well would be the same set written twice, and the copy that
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+ goes stale is the one nobody looks at.
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+ ### Why `app/` and not `public/`
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+ `public/` means "serve this file unchanged". These are *read* as well as
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+ served: an icon's filename decides what goes in the manifest, and its presence
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+ decides what goes in the head. A file whose name the build interprets belongs
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+ with the other files whose names the build interprets.
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+ They are copied into the build output under `/_app/`, so they never collide
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+ with something you put in `public/` yourself. The favicon is the exception —
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+ it is served at `/favicon.ico`, because browsers ask for that url whatever the
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+ markup says.
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+
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+ :::note[Set `metadataBase`]
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+ The image is emitted as `/_app/opengraph-image.png`, which a scraper will not
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+ fetch. With `metadataBase` on the root layout it goes out absolute — see [the
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+ share card](#the-share-card) above.
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+ :::
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+
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+ ### Not `opengraph-image.tsx`
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+ Next also accepts a *component* by that name and renders it to a PNG at build
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+ time. This package does not, on purpose. Rendering an image means bundling a
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+ layout engine and a rasteriser — a couple of megabytes of dependencies, and
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+ seconds added to every build for every image — for a picture that changes
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+ when the design does, which is to say rarely.
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+ Make the image once with whatever you like, and commit the file. If a page
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+ needs a *different* image per record — a card for each post — that is an
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+ [api route](/guides/api-routes/) that returns one, cached, and the
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+ `openGraph.images` url points at it. Neither touches the build.
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+ # Navigation
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+
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+ > What happens when someone clicks a link, and why state survives it.
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+
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+ `Link` does not reload the page. It asks the server for the part of the tree
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+ that actually changed, and swaps it in.
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+
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+ ```tsx
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+ import Link from '@rsc-kit/core/Link'
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+
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+ <Link href="/about">About</Link>
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+ ```
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+
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+ ## What a navigation actually sends
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+
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+ Going from `/posts/one` to `/posts/two`, the root layout and the posts layout
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+ are already mounted and identical. The client says which layouts it holds, the
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+ server compares that with the new route's chain, and answers with the deepest
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+ piece that differs — the page alone.
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+
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+ You get this for free. There is nothing to configure and no `loading` prop to
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+ thread.
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+ Two things follow from it, and they are the reason it works this way:
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+ **State above the swap survives.** A sidebar's scroll position, an open menu, a
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+ half-typed form in a layout — none of it is touched, because none of it was
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+ re-rendered.
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+ **A page you return to is still there.** Recently visited pages are kept mounted
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+ and hidden rather than thrown away, so going back restores a half-filled form
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+ exactly as you left it. Only a handful are kept, ordered by last visit.
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+
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+ ## Programmatic navigation
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+ ```tsx
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+ 'use client'
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+
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+ import { visit, prefetch } from '@rsc-kit/core/router'
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+
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+ <button onClick={() => visit('/checkout')}>Checkout</button>
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+ ```
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+
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+ Links prefetch on hover already. `prefetch` is for when you know where someone
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+ is going before they hover:
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+
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+ ```tsx
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+ useEffect(() => { prefetch('/step-2') }, [])
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+ ```
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+
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+ ## Showing progress
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+
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+ ```tsx
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+ 'use client'
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+
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+ import { useLinkStatus } from '@rsc-kit/core/useLinkStatus'
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+
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+ function Spinner() {
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+ const { pending } = useLinkStatus()
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+
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+ return pending ? <span>Loading…</span> : null
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+ }
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+ ```
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+
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+ A `loading.tsx` beside a page is shown while that page's data resolves:
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+
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+ ```tsx title="src/app/posts/loading.tsx"
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+ export default function Loading() {
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+ return <p>Loading posts…</p>
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+ }
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+ ```
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+
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+ ## Refreshing the current page
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+ ```tsx
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+ 'use client'
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+
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+ import { refresh } from '@rsc-kit/core/router'
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+
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+ <button onClick={() => refresh()}>Reload</button>
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+ ```
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+ Scroll positions are restored afterwards — the window's and any element with
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+ its own overflow, such as a sidebar.
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+ # A page with no JavaScript
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+
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+ > Rendering a route to HTML and stopping there.
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+
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+ Some pages have nothing to hydrate. A marketing page, a changelog, an article.
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+ For those, shipping React is paying about 70 kB gzipped for nothing — so the
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+ build does not.
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+
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+ ## It is automatic
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+
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+ A route that freezes whole, renders **no client component** of yours, and has
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+ **no server action** in its tree is stored without the bootstrap script. No
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+ React, no Flight client, no router. The build says so:
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+
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+ ```
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+ ○ /about no js
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+ no client components, so ships no javascript
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+ ```
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+
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+ Nothing to declare. The check is made on the rendered tree, not the source,
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+ so a client component reached through a shared layout counts — which is why
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+ most pages in an app with a `<Link>` in its header keep the runtime, and a
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+ route group with its own plain layout can drop it.
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+
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+ The line is drawn at what the runtime would *do*. A client component needs
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+ hydrating. A `<form action={serverFn}>` written in a server component needs
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+ React to submit it. A `<Suspense>` hole that was not filled at build time
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+ needs the client to fill it, which is why only a route stored whole
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+ qualifies. Everything else — anchors, styles, a third-party `<script>` — works
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+ the same with or without.
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+
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+ Navigation is unchanged in both directions. A page with no client component
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+ has no `<Link>`, so its anchors were already full loads. A `<Link>` elsewhere
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+ that points *at* it still fetches its flight payload and swaps the segment,
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+ because that payload is still written from the render with the runtime.
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+
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+ ## Declaring it
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+
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+ To force it on, for a page that renders a client component you are content
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+ to leave inert:
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+
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+ ```tsx title="src/app/about/page.tsx"
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+ export const clientJs = false
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+ ```
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+
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+ A page stored this way still registers the [service worker](/guides/offline)
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+ when the app has one: the runtime's one-line registration is inlined in its
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+ place, so a visitor who lands here first gets the worker the second visit is
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+ for. What such a page cannot show is the update prompt, which is a client
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+ component. To keep the runtime on a page the build would otherwise strip, say
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+ so:
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+ ```tsx
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+ export const clientJs = true
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+ ```
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+
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+ ## What stops working when you declare it
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+
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+ With `clientJs = false`, anything interactive stops working, which is why the
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+ build refuses the combination rather than shipping it:
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+
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+ ```
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+ app/about/page.tsx declares clientJs = false but renders client components:
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+ src/components/Counter.tsx
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+ ```
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+
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+ That is a build failure, not a warning. A client component with no runtime is
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+ inert markup — a button that does nothing — and it is usually inherited from a
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+ shared layout rather than written on the page, so the message names the
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+ components responsible.
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+
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+ ## It cannot be a PPR route
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+
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+ With no client runtime there is nothing to fill a Suspense hole after the
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+ shell arrives. A `clientJs = false` route should be fully static: fetch what it
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+ needs at build time and freeze the whole page.