| 1 | ## Motivation?
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| 3 | [React][react]'s rendering is synchronous by design.
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| 4 | As a result, rendering on the server is left as an exercise for the rest of the
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| 5 | community to figure out.
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| 7 | There are some cludgy solutions for this, most of which require having
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| 8 | **fat ~~handlers~~ ~~components~~ controllers** at the top of your application
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| 9 | that are responsible for **marshalling data for all components under them**.
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| 11 | For a non-trivial application, this means mixing concerns between your
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| 12 | specialized components and the _controllers_, which is conceptually difficult
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| 13 | and programmatically annoying to maintain.
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| 15 | [react]: http://facebook.github.io/react/
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