Understanding Hydration Error in Next.js: Causes and Fixes

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🚀 Understanding “Hydration Error” in Next.js (Explained Simply) If you’ve ever seen this scary line in your console 👇 ⚠️ “Text content does not match. Server: ‘X’ Client: ‘Y’” You’ve just met a hydration error 💡 What actually happens in Next.js: Server-side Rendering (SSR): Next.js runs your React code on the server and sends ready HTML to the browser. Hydration: Once the browser gets that HTML, React runs again on the client, builds a Virtual DOM (vDOM), and compares it with the server’s HTML. If both match ✅ — React just attaches event listeners (page becomes interactive). If they don’t match ❌ — React throws a hydration error. ⚙️ Why does mismatch happen? Because the client doesn’t reuse the server HTML. It recomputes it using the same React component code. If that computation gives a different result — mismatch occurs! Common causes: Using Math.random(), Date.now(), or time-dependent values. Conditional rendering using browser-only data (like window or localStorage). Async data that differs on client and server.

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