Should resistor R1 be in the gate of the CMOS transistor of the following schematic? (CMOS Transistor)
Since the gate driver is there to drive enough current to quickly turn the FET on or off, the R1 of 1kohm seems a bit too large and defeats the purpose of a fast FET control with a gate driver. It might not matter a lot with slow signals if a load is turned on and off at slow rate, but if the load is driven with fast PWM signal it will matter. It can be easily reduced to 100 or 10 ohms, and it will usually cause no adverse effects.
Omitting it completely can cause too large currents, and too fast rise/fall times, and any stray inductances of too long wiring and FET capacitances can cause ringing, which is something you might want to avoid.