Streaming SSR and Hydration Strategies (React 18)

Summary

Design streaming SSR pipelines with predictable hydration behavior and progressive interactivity.

Key Capabilities

• Partition server rendering output into priority streams.
• Orchestrate client-side hydration order for critical paths.
• Handle partial hydration failures and recover gracefully.

PhD-Level Challenges

• Formalize hydration ordering constraints for consistency.
• Model bandwidth/CPU trade-offs for streaming chunk sizes.
• Validate correctness under partial network failures.

Acceptance Criteria

• Provide streaming SSR implementation notes and diagrams.
• Demonstrate measurable TTI improvement with staged hydration.
• Show recovery behavior for interrupted streams.