What is ISR (Incremental Static Regeneration)?
Updating static pages in the background without rebuilding your entire site
Why It Matters
ISR gives you the speed of static sites with the ability to show updated content
Real-World Example
A product page that updates its price every hour without a full site rebuild
Related Terms
SSG (Static Site Generation)
Building all pages at deploy time rather than on each request
SSR (Server-Side Rendering)
Generating web pages on the server for each request, then sending complete HTML to the browser
Next.js
A framework built on React that adds features like page routing, server-side rendering, and API handling
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Related Terms
Next.js
A framework built on React that adds features like page routing, server-side rendering, and API handling
SSR (Server-Side Rendering)
Generating web pages on the server for each request, then sending complete HTML to the browser
SSG (Static Site Generation)
Building all pages at deploy time rather than on each request
Microservices
An architecture where an application is built as many small, independent services that work together
Monolith
An application where all features are built and deployed as a single unit
Static Site
A website with pre-built pages that are the same for every visitor