index.md

title	Server React DOM APIs

The react-dom/server APIs let you server-side render React components to HTML. These APIs are only used on the server at the top level of your app to generate the initial HTML. A framework may call them for you. Most of your components don't need to import or use them.

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Server APIs for Web Streams {/server-apis-for-web-streams/}

These methods are only available in the environments with Web Streams, which includes browsers, Deno, and some modern edge runtimes:

• renderToReadableStream renders a React tree to a Readable Web Stream.
• resume resumes prerender to a Readable Web Stream.

Node.js also includes these methods for compatibility, but they are not recommended due to worse performance. Use the dedicated Node.js APIs instead.

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Server APIs for Node.js Streams {/server-apis-for-nodejs-streams/}

These methods are only available in the environments with Node.js Streams:

• renderToPipeableStream renders a React tree to a pipeable Node.js Stream.
• resumeToPipeableStream resumes prerenderToNodeStream to a pipeable Node.js Stream.

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Legacy Server APIs for non-streaming environments {/legacy-server-apis-for-non-streaming-environments/}

These methods can be used in the environments that don't support streams:

• renderToString renders a React tree to a string.
• renderToStaticMarkup renders a non-interactive React tree to a string.

They have limited functionality compared to the streaming APIs.