Another great post!

I like the abstraction of server components but some of my co-workers seem to prefer HTMX (sending HTML rather than JSON) and can't really see any performance benefit from server components.

Maybe OP could clear up - Whether HTML could be sent instead (depending on platform), there is a brief point about not losing state but if your component does not have input elements or can have it state thrown away then maybe raw HTML could work? - prop size vs markup/component size. If you send a component down with a 1:9 dynamic to static content component. Then wouldn't it be better to have the the 90% static preloaded in the client, then only 10% of the data transmitted? Any good heuristic options here? - "It’s easy to make HTML out of JSON, but not the inverse". What is intrinsic about HTML/XML?

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Also is Dan the only maintainer on the React team who does these kind of posts? do other members write long form. would be interesting to have a second angle.