Best Practices for deploying meteor app (Flow Router, Prerender.io) to Digital Ocean

deployment
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I would like to know how to set up my app (which is using Flow Router - client only, and uses React) to take advantage of the service offered by prerender.io.

I have the app deployed to Digital Ocean and it uses Flow Router (client-side only, not the SSR, and not using subscriptions in any way). I guess I don’t understand how the prerender service will be able to cache the “pages” of my app. Do I need Flow Router SSR? When I use it and move my components into a folder accessible to both the client and the server, I sometimes get messages in the console showing that React has received contradictory id’s from the server that don’t match the ones it generated on the client. If I use Flow Router (no SSR) then how do web bots see the site at their first visit to the site?

Any insight/links would be greatly appreciated.

Fraser

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You don’t need to use Flow Router SSR with prerender.io. Prerender creates static HTML based copies of your site content, uploads it to their servers, then when you get a web crawler request, the web crawler is sent to Prerender’s site for the content. Just wire it up (as outlined in the Guide) and you should be good to go!

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Many thanks, hwillson! Happy to not have the SSR conflicts (seemingly) with react rendering.