Server-side rendering

Rendering a UI on the server before it reaches the browser — first paint without waiting for a client framework to boot, and markup a crawler can read.

Overview

SAP SHIPS

CAP ships no UI technology of its own. Its Node.js server mounts the project's app folder as static content and serves the CDS services for a client to read; what turns that into a screen is whatever framework the browser loads.

Not covered: Rendering is left to the client. Neither capire's UI guide nor the documented bootstrap of the built-in server describes producing markup for a request, so a first response that already carries the data is not something the core answers.

Sourcecapire — Serving UIschecked 2026-09-22

THE COMMUNITY ADDS

ui5-cap-serverside-rendering-plugin substitutes entity data into a UI5 XML view or fragment on the CAP server through Handlebars and serves it as that entity's media content; a route of its own renders a Vue app to HTML.

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