--- title: The Perils of Hydration | daily.dev description: The Perils of Hydration: Understanding how Gatsby/Next manage server-side rendering and hydration Introduction I ran into the strangest issue recently. In... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-perils-of-hydration-nfmwb45qp twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Perils of Hydration | daily.dev og:description: The Perils of Hydration: Understanding how Gatsby/Next manage server-side rendering and hydration Introduction I ran into the strangest issue recently. In... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-perils-of-hydration-nfmwb45qp og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/NfMwb45qp.png og:image:alt: The Perils of Hydration og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Perils of Hydration **[Josh W Comeau](https://daily.dev/sources/joshwcomeau)** · 10 min read · 29 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The Perils of Hydration: Understanding how Gatsby/Next manage server-side rendering and hydration Introduction I ran into the strangest issue recently. In production, the bottom of my blog was doing something… unintended: A bit of digging into the Elements tab in the devtools revealed the culprit… My React component was rendering in the wrong spot. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#react](https://daily.dev/tags/react), [#webdev](https://daily.dev/tags/webdev), [#html](https://daily.dev/tags/html), [#dom](https://daily.dev/tags/dom), [#gatsby](https://daily.dev/tags/gatsby) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/the-perils-of-hydration-nfmwb45qp) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"The Perils of Hydration","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-perils-of-hydration-nfmwb45qp","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-perils-of-hydration-nfmwb45qp"},"datePublished":"2023-04-27T15:47:13.663Z","dateModified":"2023-04-27T15:47:13.506Z","description":"The Perils of Hydration: Understanding how Gatsby/Next manage server-side rendering and hydration Introduction I ran into the strangest issue recently. In...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/e41b3e535a77486296d9b9597fdb2b47?_a=AQADKdt","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/e41b3e535a77486296d9b9597fdb2b47?_a=AQADKdt","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Josh W Comeau","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Josh W Comeau","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/4a121572d03c40a2bff9e8ed0f0792b5","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/joshwcomeau"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/the-perils-of-hydration-nfmwb45qp","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":29},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"react,webdev,html,dom,gatsby","timeRequired":"PT10M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Josh W Comeau","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/joshwcomeau"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"The Perils of Hydration"}]} ```