Static and Dynamic Rendering

In Next.js, a route can be statically or dynamically rendered.

• In a static route, components are rendered on the server at build time. The result of the work is cached and reused on subsequent requests.
• In a dynamic route, components are rendered on the server at request time.

Static Rendering (Default)

Static rendering (default) improves performance because all the rendering work is done ahead of time and can be served from a Content Delivery Network (CDN) geographically closer to the user.

You can opt into dynamic rendering by using a dynamic function or dynamic data fetching in a layout or page. This will cause Next.js to render the whole route dynamically, at request time.

This table summarizes how dynamic functions and static data fetching (caching) affect the rendering behavior of a route.

Data Fetching	Dynamic Functions	Rendering
Cached	No	Static
Cached	Yes	Dynamic
Not Cached	No	Dynamic
Not Cached	Yes	Dynamic

Note how, for a route to be statically rendered, the data requests are cached and there are no dynamic functions.

Note: In the future, Next.js will introduce hybrid server-side rendering where layouts and pages in a route can be independently statically or dynamically rendered, instead of the whole route.

Static Data Fetching (Default)

By default, Next.js will cache the result of fetch() requests that do not specifically opt out of caching behavior. This means that fetch requests that do not set a cache option will use the force-cache option.

If any fetch requests in the route use the revalidate option, the route will be re-rendered statically during revalidation.

To learn more about caching data fetching requests, see the Caching and Revalidating page.

Dynamic Rendering

During static rendering, if a dynamic function or a dynamic fetch() request (no caching) is discovered, Next.js will switch to dynamically rendering the whole route at request time. Any cached data requests can still be re-used during dynamic rendering.

Using Dynamic Functions

Dynamic functions rely on information that can only be known at request time such as a user's cookies, current requests headers, or the URL's search params. In Next.js, these dynamic functions are:

• Using cookies() or headers() in a Server Component will opt the whole route into dynamic rendering at request time.
• Using useSearchParams() in Client Components will skip static rendering and instead render all client components up to the nearest parent Suspense boundary on the client.
  • We recommend wrapping the client component that uses useSearchParams() in a <Suspense/> boundary. This will allow any client components above it to be statically rendered. Example.
• Using the searchParams Pages prop will opt the page into dynamic rendering at request time.

Using Dynamic Data Fetches

Dynamic data fetches are fetch() requests that specifically opt out of caching behavior by setting the cache option to 'no-store' or revalidate to 0.

The caching options for all fetch requests in a layout or page can also be set using the segment config object.

To learn more about Dynamic Data Fetching, see the Data Fetching page.