How do I programatically preload client data into a route using Link or redirect?

[jscul]

I want to click a <Link> and automatically get put on that page regardless of whether loader has completed or not. I know I can use useFetcher for this, but that makes it so SSR no longer works. I can't use shouldRevalidate because I'm navigating from a different route so it doesn't get called.

This seems like it'd be a pretty common use case... I already have some data loaded, when I navigate to a new page I want to prefill that page immediately while I wait for loader to do it's thing... but still have SSR.

Is the only way to accomplish this through 2 different URL's, one that's SSR and one that's not?

[kiliman]

You should checkout defer.

https://remix.run/docs/en/1.19.2/guides/streaming#using-defer

[jscul]

This is exactly what I was looking for, would you happen to know if there's a way to determine if we're dealing with an initial page load versus a client navigation in a loader?