Falling back to pure SSR

[babakness]

Hello, is it force SSR on all links based on a condition? For example, say a Bing searchbot visits (user agent contains " bing "), can we force all links to hit the server (SSR)? This could also be a nice fallback on text based browser as well.

[babakness]

More broadly, it would be nice to have an api to say "hey Next, render the next route as SSR" (and forget all the components you've downloaded). Basically like forcing a browser refresh but only upon entering the next route.

[rauchg]

That's how it works already. If you want only SSR and no client side, use <a href> instead of <Link>

[babakness]

Hmm.. maybe a mod to the Link component then. Basically you want CSR unless text only browser or a search bot. As far as I know Bing doesn't render Javascript.

[babakness]

Using <a> instead of <Link> mean ALL traffic will be SSR, which isn't the desired. Only in certain situations.

[arunoda]

@babakness you could use when a BOT is using your site. You might have ways to identify a bot user from the client side.

Anyway, I don't think that's a good SEO practice.

If there's no JS, all <Link> tags will be <a> tags.
So, what you are asking is already there. :)