2025-12-20 · 4 min read
SEO without Node: pre-rendered HTML + React hydration
No server-side Node. Still SEO-friendly. Here’s the setup used on this blog subdomain.
You can keep hosting simple (just upload files to httpdocs) and still ship a site that search engines can crawl properly.
The idea
- Serve real HTML per URL (snapshots)
- Hydrate with React for interactivity
- Intercept internal links to avoid full page reloads
This gives you fast pages, nice UX, and reliable indexing.