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Make the initial server and client output deterministic; move intentional browser-only divergence to an Effect or a client-only boundary, and reserve suppressHydrationWarning for a single unavoidable leaf.","applicability":["React DOM SSR applications using hydrateRoot; frameworks such as Next.js may own the hydrateRoot call, so use their supported error-reporting hooks when the framework owns it.","Incidents where the server-rendered HTML differs from the first browser render, including text/attribute/structure mismatches or recovery to client rendering.","Diagnostics must be run with the affected React/framework versions, locale/time zone, cookies or feature flags, and deployment HTML transforms represented; do not log secrets or token values."],"limitations":["React's contract requires identical server and initial client output; React may recover from some mismatches but does not guarantee that mismatched attributes are patched, and recovery can incur a slowdown or attach handlers incorrectly.","The error callback componentStack localizes the React subtree but cannot by itself distinguish a Date/locale/data cause from an extension, CDN, invalid-markup, or other DOM mutation; 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