SEO for JavaScript Single Page Applications is a hot discussed topic.
Even though Google claims to be able to properly index JavaScript SPAs, the other search engines barely do.
There seems to be 3 general approaches for solving it:
- doing Server Side Rendering (SSR), on your own or with a dedicated framework
- making your website/app static (if possible)
- serving a pre-rendered version of your app to the crawlers, again: on your own or using a service for it
Which method do you use and advocate for? What problems do you see with the other solutions?
Maybe to start off the discussion, at SwissDev Jobs we are using a pre-rendering service called Prerender.io to serve static HTML pages to the crawlers.
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Overall it seems to be a nice quick solution, unless we are missing something from the SEO perspective but even Google seems to be fine with this approach: developers.google.com/search/docs/...