Making sense of web rendering patterns with Gil Fink

Gil Fink breaks down web rendering patterns including server side rendering, SSR, client side rendering, CSR, and static rendering, along with newer approaches like islands architecture, resumability, and hybrid rendering. The conversation explores tradeoffs around hydration, web performance, INP, CDN caching, and bundle size optimization, and compares frameworks like Next.js, TanStack Start, Astro, Qwik, and Remix to help developers make better decisions about React rendering strategies and overall application performance. Links Resources We want to hear from you! How did you find us? Did you see us on Twitter? In a newsletter? Or maybe we were recommended by a friend? Fill out our listener survey ! Let us know by sending an email to our producer, Elizabeth, at elizabeth.becz@logrocket.com , or tweet at us at PodRocketPod . Check out our newsletter !

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Making sense of web rendering patterns with Gil Fink is an episode from PodRocket - A web development podcast from LogRocket by LogRocket.

This episode is 25:15 long.

This episode was published on Feb 19, 2026.

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