Glossary term
What is Server Component?
In Apex Flow Academy, "Server Component" means: A component that runs on the server and sends finished HTML. It cannot use state, effects or event handlers. It is taught in React and Next.js: Build Modern Web Apps. Related terms include Dynamic route, Client Component, Layout and Route Handler. Every Apex Flow Academy course lists the official sources it checked.
- 1 course teaches it
- plain-word definition
The facts
What is Server Component?
A component that runs on the server and sends finished HTML. It cannot use state, effects or event handlers.
Where is Server Component taught?
Server Component is defined in React and Next.js: Build Modern Web Apps.
Which lessons cover Server Component?
These lessons name it in their title or objectives:
- React and Next.js: Build Modern Web Apps, lesson 4.3: Server components and client components
Which terms are related to Server Component?
Next to Server Component in the course glossaries: Dynamic route, Client Component, Layout, Route Handler, Route, API, Hydration and Server Action.
Dynamic routeClient ComponentLayoutRoute HandlerRouteAPIHydrationServer Action
The hard questions, answered straight
Bold questions people really ask. Each answer comes from the course data or a settled Academy fact.
Do I need experience before I learn Server Component?
It depends on the course. Each course that teaches it lists its own prerequisites, and all are listed at intermediate level:
- React and Next.js: Build Modern Web Apps: Basic JavaScript: you can write a function, use variables with const and let, work with arrays and objects, and have seen map and filter. Modules 1 and 2 explain destructuring and spread the first time they appear.