Next.js nope - Remix and Astro.js yes!

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2024-10-17 06:00:05

I am a big Next.js fan you must know. I really love a lot of aspects of Vercel and Next.js. Beginning with how high tech they are and how good they did their branding and marketing. Not to forget how much they innovated in the Javascript Ecosystem with their approach on frontend. But I have to say, the more I work with the more I doubt it's a one fits all solution. Actually I think Next.js is only for a nieche of projects. But let's start from the beginning.

I personally really love working on the bleeding edge with the hope that it turns out to be the new way of doing things. Also experimenting and trying out new paradigms and new tooling is something I enjoy. Also I really like how Next.js solved the file based routing problem - and after seeing thousands of page.tsx and route.tsx I kind of got used to working with it. (You have to CMD+P <route>page.tsx a lot in Next.js)

Bleeding edge is awesome but sometimes it's just too much. Somehow I think Vercel is trying to reinvent the wheel, fails and is then too stubborn to admit that they erred in that regard. I mainly think of Turbopack and ISR. We have vite and we have SWR and I just can't think of a reason why Vercel keeps pushing their own solutions.

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