Ask HN: The whole NextJS situation is overwhelming

Re:Ask HN: The whole NextJS situation is overwhelming by mubou on Sunday April 13, 2025 @10:18AM (#43672994)

Blaming all of frontend for Next.js' issues is a bit much, but I agree; people have been complaining about Next.js for a long time. It's slow, complicated, and a PITA if you need to do anything outside the box.

Unfortunately, options for SSR in React are all pretty limiting compared to other languages' frameworks, unless you go the full DIY route which isn't usually feasible.

Of course, if you don't need SSR there's no reason to chain yourself to Next and Vercel's whims. Starting a React project from scratch is a lot less painful now with Vite (there was a time when just setting up Webpack & stuff took half a work day).

This is just my personal experience, however. I know a lot of people live and die by Next.js.

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Re:Ask HN: The whole NextJS situation is overwhelming by mbelen on Sunday April 13, 2025 @10:37AM (#43673130)

nextjs is great in a sense that it allows to make full stack apps very conviniently. Making an api endpoint is just creating a file. If only there was less stuff in between though

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Re:Ask HN: The whole NextJS situation is overwhelming by solardev on Sunday April 13, 2025 @01:14PM (#43674281)

You can use Next with the page router and it's lot simpler. Or Astro?

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Re:Ask HN: The whole NextJS situation is overwhelming by mubou on Sunday April 13, 2025 @01:36PM (#43674427)

"Simpler" doesn't necessarily mean better. Next is convenient as long as you stay inside the box, but it's very limiting otherwise (that is, it doesn't adapt to a wide variety of usecases, but rather forces you to adapt to it -- that's my main gripe).

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Re:Ask HN: The whole NextJS situation is overwhelming by solardev on Sunday April 13, 2025 @01:53PM (#43674551)

Absolutely. I agree with you.

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