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@rschristian , thanks for the quick reply!

You're absolutely right--this is simply a case of me not knowing about the 200.html file.

Looks like I can get the behavior I'm looking for by using Vercel rewrites. In case anyone else is running into this, here's my vercel.json config to avoid a flash of green homepage content on dynamic podcast-specific pages (e.g. adblockpodcast.com/podcast/1549059398).

{
  "rewrites": [
    {
      "source": "/podcast/*",
      "destination": "200.html"
    }
  ]
}

It turns out all my pages share a header, so I was able to get a more complete page shell rendered (without content) on dynamic pages by manually creating a blank loading route (e.g. routes/blank-ssr-page.tsx), pre-rendering it, and then just changing destination in the Vercel rewrite to "blank-ssr-page/index.html", e.g.

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Hmm, I'm not really sure what you expect CLI to do here? We just output static files, how you serve them is mostly out of scope.

there ought to be a way to control what pre-rendered content is used (instead of it having to be the homepage).

This is entirely up to your file server's configuration. Most file servers fallback to /index.html, sounds like you instead want to configure /200.html as your fallback.

Edit:

but it appears this fix is no longer working, or only applies after the service worker is installed.

Yes, you cannot use the service worker's cache if the service worker is not yet installed.

Edit2: To be clear, the role of /200.html is to provide an empty shell to render into when offline or a network request for a page fails. If you start up your server (npm run serve), navigate to it (to load the SW), stop your server, then navigate to say http://localhost:8080/example, the SW will render your app into /200.html (can check the network). This of course is meant to service PWAs, but you can use it as a empty shell fallback if you want, I suppose.

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We can definitely do with some better docs here, will add it to the list.

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