REACT SERVER COMPONENTS: HOW WE GOT HERE

Summary from the TLDR Web Dev newsletter

In the context of web dev, Multi-Page Applications provide simplicity but have a poor user experience, while Single-Page Applications (SPAs) improve UX but introduce network management complexity and lost progressive enhancement. Frameworks like Remix attempt to restore progressive enhancement to SPAs, but still have compositional limitations. React Server Components are a big leap because they restore component-based composition, remove custom network management code, and combine the best features of previous approaches for simpler, more performant web apps.