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What is Server-Side Rendering (SSR) in Angular and how does it work?

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Quick Answer Angular Universal enables Server-Side Rendering (SSR). The Angular app runs on a Node.js server, renders HTML, and sends it to the browser. Benefits: faster First Contentful Paint (FCP), better SEO (bots see full HTML), social sharing previews. Challenges: server state transfer to client, browser APIs not available on server (window, document). Use TransferState to pass data from server render to client.

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SSR pre-renders Angular pages on the server using Angular Universal.

Benefits include improved SEO, faster first contentful paint, better performance on slow devices, and reduced time-to-interactive.

The server renders HTML ? browser loads it ? Angular hydrates and takes over as a SPA.

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