Streams and React Server Components
Many developers have used streams when building technology, but how many have truly understood their intricacies and their connection to React Server Components? Personally, the concept never quite clicked for me. It wasn't until contributing to Waku and being curious about how RSCs stream html—requiring me to take them seriously. Waku is a minimal layer over React Server Components using Vite. In this essay, I'm going to talk more about the concept, the abstraction the Streams API provides around the concept and how React Server Components leverage this API. Concept data that is created, processed, and consumed in an incremental