React Server Components
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
4warn against
Dec 3, 2025first mention
Apr 14, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“RSC are designed to solve many of the same problems that Astro does.”
“it cuts down the number of routes you need by 90% or more”
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“There's no system for web development that provides the developer with more grounded flexibility than RSCs.”
Caveats and dissent
“without a complex and insecure protocol like RSC”
“Are those still in vogue after the recent security disaster?”
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“But I really, really do not like React Server Components as they work today.”
Threads where it came up
- TanStack Start Now Support React Server Components 2 mentions
- Denial of service and source code exposure in React Server Components 2 mentions
- Vercel Claude Code plugin wants to read your prompt 1 mention
- Show HN: rari, the rust-powered react framework 1 mention
- Astro Joining Cloudflare 1 mention
- RCE Vulnerability in React and Next.js 1 mention
Data: react-server-components.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 8
“without a complex and insecure protocol like RSC”
> Even bottom of the barrel motorolas are not wimpy nowadays They are: https://infrequently.org/2025/11/performance-inequality-gap-2026/ That said, RSCs and the rest of the "let's render a static site but let's also send a multimegabyte bundle for 'hydration'" is still wrong
Hey, appreciate the reply! I’m sorry for lashing out as well. Re: protocol, I see where you’re coming from although I can also see the team perspective and I kind of like it the way it is. The team’s perspective is that this isn’t a “protocol” in the sense that HTTP or such is. It isn’t designed to have many implementations emitting it. It is an implementation detail of React itself for which React provides both the
“Are those still in vogue after the recent security disaster?”
“RSC are designed to solve many of the same problems that Astro does.”
“it cuts down the number of routes you need by 90% or more”
“But I really, really do not like React Server Components as they work today.”
“There's no system for web development that provides the developer with more grounded flexibility than RSCs.”