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Server Side Rendering

NextJS

We've optimized integration into NextJS with a custom Document and NextJS specific wrapper for App

npm install --save @rest-hooks/ssr @rest-hooks/redux redux
pages/_document.tsx
import { RestHooksDocument } from '@rest-hooks/ssr/nextjs';

export default RestHooksDocument;
pages/_app.tsx
import { AppCacheProvider } from '@rest-hooks/ssr/nextjs';
import type { AppProps } from 'next/app';

export default function App({ Component, pageProps }: AppProps) {
return (
<AppCacheProvider>
<Component {...pageProps} />
</AppCacheProvider>
);
}
caution

When fetching from parameters from useRouter(), you will need to add getServerSideProps to avoid NextJS setting router.query to nothing

export default function MyComponent() {
const id: string; = useRouter().query.id;
const post = useSuspense(getPost, { id });
// etc
}
export const getServerSideProps = () => ({ props: {} });

Demo

Further customizing Document

To further customize Document, simply extend from the provided document.

Make sure you use super.getInitialProps() instead of Document.getInitialProps() or the Rest Hooks code won't run!

pages/_document.tsx
import { Html, Head, Main, NextScript } from 'next/document';
import { RestHooksDocument } from '@rest-hooks/ssr/nextjs';

export default class MyDocument extends RestHooksDocument {
static async getInitialProps(ctx) {
const originalRenderPage = ctx.renderPage;

// Run the React rendering logic synchronously
ctx.renderPage = () =>
originalRenderPage({
// Useful for wrapping the whole react tree
enhanceApp: App => App,
// Useful for wrapping in a per-page basis
enhanceComponent: Component => Component,
});

// Run the parent `getInitialProps`, it now includes the custom `renderPage`
const initialProps = await super.getInitialProps(ctx);

return initialProps;
}

render() {
return (
<Html>
<Head />
<body>
<Main />
<NextScript />
</body>
</Html>
);
}
}

CSP Nonce

Rest Hooks Document serializes the store state in a script tag. In case you have Content Security Policy restrictions that require use of a nonce, you can override RestHooksDocument.getNonce.

Since there is no standard way of handling nonce in NextJS, this allows you to retrieve any nonce you created in the DocumentContext to use with Rest Hooks.

pages/_document.tsx
import { RestHooksDocument } from '@rest-hooks/ssr/nextjs';
import type { DocumentContext } from 'next/document.js';

export default class MyDocument extends RestHooksDocument {
static getNonce(ctx: DocumentContext & { res: { nonce?: string } }) {
// this assumes nonce has been added here - customize as you need
return ctx?.res?.nonce;
}
}

Class mangling and Entity.key

NextJS will rename classes for production builds. Due to this, it's critical to define Entity.key as its default implementation is based on the class name.

class User extends Entity {
id = '';
username = '';

pk() { return this.id }

static key = 'User';
}

Express JS

When implementing your own server using express.

npm install --save @rest-hooks/ssr @rest-hooks/redux redux

Server side

import express from 'express';
import { renderToPipeableStream } from 'react-dom/server';
import {
createPersistedStore,
createServerDataComponent,
} from '@rest-hooks/ssr';

const rootId = 'react-root';

const app = express();
app.get('/*', (req: any, res: any) => {
const [ServerCacheProvider, useReadyCacheState, controller] =
createPersistedStore();
const ServerDataComponent = createServerDataComponent(useReadyCacheState);

controller.fetch(NeededForPage, { id: 5 });

const { pipe, abort } = renderToPipeableStream(
<Document
assets={assets}
scripts={[<ServerDataComponent key="server-data" />]}
rootId={rootId}
>
<ServerCacheProvider>{children}</ServerCacheProvider>
</Document>,

{
onCompleteShell() {
// If something errored before we started streaming, we set the error code appropriately.
res.statusCode = didError ? 500 : 200;
res.setHeader('Content-type', 'text/html');
pipe(res);
},
onError(x: any) {
didError = true;
console.error(x);
res.statusCode = 500;
pipe(res);
},
},
);
// Abandon and switch to client rendering if enough time passes.
// Try lowering this to see the client recover.
setTimeout(abort, 1000);
});

app.listen(3000, () => {
console.log(`Listening at ${PORT}...`);
});

Client

import { hydrateRoot } from 'react-dom';
import { awaitInitialData } from '@rest-hooks/ssr';

const rootId = 'react-root';

awaitInitialData().then(initialState => {
hydrateRoot(
document.getElementById(rootId),
<CacheProvider initialState={initialState}>{children}</CacheProvider>,
);
});