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Re:We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from... by nicoburns on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @04:35PM (#47695905)
It's mostly because a lot of the web tooling is written in JavaScript. The build times for the "next generation" tools written in Rust/Go are dramatically faster.
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Re:We moved Railway's frontend off Next.js. Builds went from... by JoeCortopassi on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @10:10PM (#47698569)
Agreed. My frontend/react builds use esbuild, and rebuild fast enough that it feels like hot module reloading
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