[Typo]: Client Components running on the server

Summary

The "use client" docs state:

During render, the framework will server-render the root component and continue through the render tree, opting-out of evaluating any code imported from client-marked code.

The server-rendered portion of the render tree is then sent to the client. The client, with its client code downloaded, then completes rendering the rest of the tree.

This implies that Client Components are skipped during SSR, but I don’t think that’s true.

Page

https://react.dev/reference/rsc/use-client

Details

My understanding is that Client Components will render on the server during SSR, and hydrate on the client. This is necessary so that the server-generated HTML is complete; if Client Components were truly skipped during SSR, our HTML would be full of holes that would only be filled in after hydration.

Another way to verify this is to add a console.log() to a Client Component, within a component function. The log will be printed in our server terminal, showing that the code is indeed evaluated on the server.

It’s possible I'm misunderstanding what is meant by "render" in this context, but it really makes it sound like the server skips any files that are marked with "use client". And unless this changed very recently, it is demonstrably untrue.

Read the “use client” reference page and the quoted passages about server rendering and the render tree. Verify the behavior described using the linked documentation context and the reported server-side console output. Done means revising the wording so it accurately explains Client Components during SSR without implying that client-marked code is entirely skipped.