We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from 10+ mins to under two

Re:We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from... by ramon156 on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @04:28AM (#47687083)

I'm not insanely deep into frontend, I mostly just pick up React and call it a day, but it seems like this is also over-engineered?

I've seen vanilla JS before, and I just know I wouldn't want to do the housekeeping that comes with it. People claim it's less work because it' simpler, but I fully expect myself to rewrite the thing at least twice, only to give up because I have no actual mental model anymore of how it works.

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Re:We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from... by selfmodruntime on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @05:21AM (#47687528)

I have never in my career encountered a Vanilla JS project of at least medium size that I would have called simple. They all feature brittle selfmade frameworks whose developers have since left the company years ago.

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Re:We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from... by maccard on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @05:57AM (#47687902)

I write C++ and C# all day - I think it’s fair to say the same about a project in any programming language!

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