alternatives.md

Alternatives

Prerendering, snapshoting

	react-snap	prerender-spa-plugin	react-snapshot	prep	snapshotify
State	supported	looking for maintainer	unsupported	unsupported	experimental
DOM implementation	puppeteer	phantomjs-prebuilt	jsdom	nightmare	puppeteer
Doesn't depend on Webpack	+	-	+	+	+
Doesn't depend on React	+	+	-	+	+
Load performance optimisation	+	-	-	-	+
Zero-configuration	+	-	+	-	+
Redux	+	-	+	-	-
Assync components	+	-	-	-	+
Webpack code splitting	+	+	-	-	+
CSSStyleSheet.insertRule	+	-	-	-	+
blob urls	+	?	-	-	-
All browser features	+	-	-	?	+

• Load performancs optimisation - something beyond rendering HTML, like critical CSS
• Zero-configuration - provides sensible defaults
• Redux - can save state at the end of redering
• async components - can save state of async componets to prevent flash on the client side
• insertRule - Works with CSS-in-JS solutions which use CSSStyleSheet.insertRule
• blob urls - removes blob urls from generated HTML

Less popular options

• presite, taki (jsdom, chromy (chrome-remote-interface, chrome-launcher))
• prerenderer, experimental, jsdom, cheerio, chrome-remote-interface
• prerender-chrome-headless, puppeteer
• chrome-render, chrome-pool (chrome-remote-interface, chrome-runner)
• react-prerender, react, cheerio
• simple-react-prerender, react, jsdom, mock-browser, isomorphic-fetch
• vue-prerender, experimental, vue, puppeteer
• prerender-seo, phantomjs-prebuilt
• puppeteer-prerender, puppeteer, request
• puppeteer-prerenderer, puppeteer
• pre-render, chrome-remote-interface, chrome-launcher, lighthouse-logger
• prerender-plugin, webpack, puppeteer
• webpack-static-site-generator, nightmare, xvfb
• junctions-static, jsdom, react

SEO-only server prerenderers

• rendertron, chrome-remote-interface, chrome-launcher
• prerender, chrome-remote-interface
• puppetron, puppeteer
• pupperender, puppeteer
• spiderable-middleware, request

Other

• usus, chrome-remote-interface, chrome-launcher
• hypernova
• static-site-generator-webpack-plugin, webpack
• Sitepack: A toolkit for building lazymorphic applications
• chromeless, chrome-launcher, chrome-remote-interface

Software as a service

• https://www.prerender.cloud/
• https://www.roast.io/docs/config/ssr

React static site generators

• gatsby
• phenomic
• react-static
• nextein

SSR

• razzle, react
• next.js, react
• nuxtjs, vue
• Create React App Universal CLI, react

WebComponents

• talk: WebComponents SSR
• skatejs/ssr
• rendertron#web-components
• shadydom

Headless browsers

• Puppeteer vs chrome-launcher - WIP: use chrome-launcher for handling the browser
• Chrome DevTools Protocol Viewer
• chrome-remote-interface
• RemoteDebug Protocol Compatibility Tables
• Puppeteer for Firefox
• Awesome chrome-devtools
• HeadlessBrowsers