Server-side rendering improves SEO, initial page load performance, and enables proper social media preview cards for Angular applications. As the creator of CoreUI, a widely used open-source UI library, I’ve implemented SSR in production Angular applications throughout my 11 years of framework development. The most reliable approach is using Angular Universal, which renders your application on the server before sending it to the client. This method provides the benefits of SSR while maintaining the full functionality of your Angular app.