RSC Is Cheap in Greenfield. Expensive in Retrofit.
Vassilios Zalimidis · September 18, 2026
RSC works well when the application was designed around it from the start. Things get more complicated when you retrofit it into a client-heavy codebase. Data fetching, state ownership, and request waterfalls quickly become the real problem. The question is not: Can this be a Server Component? It is: Where should the server and client boundary actually live?
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