---
title: Server-side render (SSR) a React component
sidebarTitle: "SSR React with Bun"
mode: center
---
To get started, install `react` & `react-dom`:
```sh terminal icon="terminal"
# Any package manager can be used
bun add react react-dom
```
---
To render a React component to an HTML stream server-side (SSR):
```tsx ssr-react.tsx icon="file-code"
import { renderToReadableStream } from "react-dom/server";
function Component(props: { message: string }) {
return (
{props.message}
);
}
const stream = await renderToReadableStream();
```
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Combining this with `Bun.serve()`, we get a simple SSR HTTP server:
```tsx server.tsx icon="/icons/typescript.svg"
Bun.serve({
async fetch() {
const stream = await renderToReadableStream();
return new Response(stream, {
headers: { "Content-Type": "text/html" },
});
},
});
```
---
React `19` and later includes an [SSR optimization](https://github.com/facebook/react/pull/25597) that takes advantage of Bun's "direct" `ReadableStream` implementation. If you run into an error like `export named 'renderToReadableStream' not found`, please make sure to install version `19` of `react` & `react-dom`, or import from `react-dom/server.browser` instead of `react-dom/server`. See [facebook/react#28941](https://github.com/facebook/react/issues/28941) for more information.