How to Build a Serverless, SEO-Friendly React Blog – Netlify (netlify.com)

> Netlify offers built-in prerendering which allows us to keep our code “serverless” while still making sure our blog is optimized for crawlers

This must be a new offering as Prerendering is listed as a paid beta by Netlify but the article doesn’t mention that

React for blog with SEO? Bad advice, hope does not become a trend.. It's like a using a big hammer for a small nail.

A better server less blog option would be a static site generator such as jekyll published and hosted on s3.

Why would anyone need to build an spa to display blog pages? How is this in any way an inprovement to static html?

I don't think the objective of this post was to convince us to build blogs with react. I agree it's misleading and it's a bad idea. Still, I have been dabbling with react and got a couple of neat ideas from the post, for example the Helmet library. This article made me curious enough to actually visit the netfly page and wander around. That was probably their objective? They also let us see clearly buttercms Api.

If you're comfortable with React, it's not a bad choice to use for templating. IMO, a better choice than SSR is using something like https://github.com/nozzle/react-static or https://github.com/gatsbyjs/gatsby to use React to build your static site.