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> Index of every page on this site: [llms.txt](https://vuejs.school/llms.txt)

# **Rendering modes and deployment**

Decide per route whether a page is built once, rendered on each request, kept in a cache for a while or left to the browser, then ship the result as a Node server or as a folder of files.

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