> React is good and simple
I in particular never said it was simple. React, particularly in SPA form, starts creating challenges pretty early on in regards to state management and app architecture. But I have never seen solutions to build large SPAs that don't have pitfalls.
In the SSG/SSR realm, I'd argue Next.js is quite simple.
> don't compare to actual experience
> Some of us detractors have 15+ years doing stuff
> I do not like playing the experience card
> it just tells me they have no idea whatsoever
> it just has great marketing
> Sorry to the devs which are often here to PR
> the last 20% are really where the issues (bad docs, bugs, constant churn) lie.
About 80% of your comment is how much better, experienced and genuine you are than everyone else - as opposed to us schmucks you accuse of doing "PR", you are here to deliver simple, unadulterated truths. I would've engaged with any technical points you had made, but since there aren't many to speak of, I guess what's only left for me to say is that it's fantastic that you feel so good about yourself.
I meant the actual Next.js core team.
I know that you are telling your unadulterated opinion, just like I am. I am not accusing you of lying, just disagreeing.
I do not like playing the experience card, but when someone tells me React is good and simple, it just tells me they have no idea whatsoever what good and simple has ever been.
And if Next.js is supposed to be a standard, then I might as well quit doing framework at all because it is not a very good library, it just has great marketing, and thrives upon the shoulders of the most common frontend library, React. Sorry to the devs which are often here to PR, but that's how it is. It gets you easily to 80% of the way, the last 20% are really where the issues (bad docs, bugs, constant churn) lie.