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Next.js is infuriating

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1033 points Bogdanp | 1 comments | 02 Sep 25 06:57 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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j-krieger ◴[02 Sep 25 08:26 UTC] No.45100426[source]▶
It really is. I am a staunch react defender, I work with it daily and I found the change from class components to hooks to be a better programming model.

But whenever I work with Next, I feel like we lost the plot somewhere. I try a lot of frameworks and I like esoteric programming languages, but somehow Next.js, the frontier JavaScript framework embraced by React is the only experience where half the time, I have no idea what it’s error messages (if I get any to begin with) are trying to tell me. I can’t even count the hours I spent with weird hydration issues.

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1. atemerev ◴[02 Sep 25 09:26 UTC] No.45100780[source]▶
Next has enshittifed themselves some time ago. Everything that goes through the VC cycle does that eventually.

I am happy for them and their money, but I can't use this anymore. I take Vite as the default option now, but I would prefer something more lightweight.