Don’t Build a General Purpose API to Power Your Own Front End (2021)

Re:Don’t Build a General Purpose API to Power Your Own Front... by satyrnein on Sunday August 20, 2023 @10:09PM (#37204759)

I really enjoyed your blog post! (You have a broken link to a time zone post, FYI.)

If you're not expecting to need fancy client side stuff, does next.js give you as good a server side development experience as Django/Rails/Laravel? At that point, it would seem worth it "just in case", as you suggest, but in the past when I looked at it, the SSR stuff still felt a little cobbled together and experimental. I would love to hear from someone with firsthand experience switching, though!

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Re:Don’t Build a General Purpose API to Power Your Own Front... by waprin on Monday August 21, 2023 @11:24AM (#37210829)

Thanks for the kind words and the heads up on the broken link.

I think Next has a great DevEx, but I'm just using it for some projects as a solo dev without a ton of traffic so perhaps there's some rough corners I haven't experienced yet.

I do think they are going down some risky paths where they do things like rewrite your code files depending on whether you're on server or client, and in general with "framework-defined infrastructure" where if you write certain functions the framework "knows" that it's supposed to be on the server or in a background job or whatever. But so far I've gotten the benefits without the drawbacks, though I might be jynxing myself.

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