Rapid growth, lessons learned and improvements at Fly.io

Re:Rapid growth, lessons learned and improvements at Fly.io by vendiddy on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @04:26AM (#35053362)

What I love about Next.js is not having to think about hosting, webpack, hosting, typescript, scss, and so on. It just works.

I initially fought to get SSR working, fixing hydration errors and making sure our code was isomorphic.

I later realized that I can just use the parts of Next.js we need and turned off SSR. It wasn't a big value add for our particular product.

But doing this wasn't straightforward. I hadn't even realized it was a possibility until I stumbled across a blog post.

I had to copy a NoSSR implementation of the internet. It wasn't just some flag I could toggle for a page.

I've also found myself recommending Next to folks saying "Use Next.js, but btw you don't need use SSR. Make sure the trade-offs make sense."

I'm curious if I'm in the minority of Next.js users. What percentage of them don't need SSR but value everything else?

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Re:Rapid growth, lessons learned and improvements at Fly.io by lucasyvas on Tuesday March 07, 2023 @10:15AM (#35056224)

FWIW, not currently using Next.js, but I'm someone who values everything else but not necessarily SSR. I've been eyeing to use Next.js in SPA mode. There are dozens of us!

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