SEO is important for any web application that delivers content to its users and wants to make the content easy to find. Generally, content on any web page will have a better chance of getting more viewers if the content is easily readable to search engines. When a search-engine bot accesses a web URL, it will get the SSR output. Hence, to make the content discoverable, the content should be part of the SSR output.
In MERN Mediastream, we will use the case of making media details popular across search engine results, to demonstrate how to inject data into an SSR view in a MERN-based application. We will focus on implementing SSR with data injected for the PlayMedia component that is returned at the '/media/:mediaId' path. The general implementation steps outlined here can be used to implement SSR with data for other views.
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