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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: 0.207s | source
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YuukiRey ◴[02 Sep 25 10:04 UTC] No.45101009[source]▶
I 100% agree. I've ran into the same issues, and I would never use Next.js for anything, and I will encourage every team at work to use something else.

In general Next.js has so many layers of abstraction that 99.9999% of projects don't need. And the ones that do are probably better off building a bespoke solution from lower level parts.

Next.js is easily the worst technology I've ever used.

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jbreckmckye ◴[02 Sep 25 11:00 UTC] No.45101378[source]▶
My experience with Next.js are that its rough edges are a feature, not a bug. Everything is geared towards you giving up and just using Vercel's hosting
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1. chamomeal ◴[02 Sep 25 12:36 UTC] No.45102304[source]▶
Fun anecdote: last time I needed to build a quick full stack app for a silly little project that my friend needed, I thought “it only needs to be up for a few months, so I’ll just use the next.js starter and throw it on vercel and be done”. I’d used vercel + next once before and thought it was easy.

Open up vercel, point it at my repo, and environment variable, it starts building and… build error. I search up the strange error log on the next issues page, and find a single issue from 3 years ago with one upvote and no response or resolution.

So I threw it on a VPS and just built it with whatever the “prod build” command is, and it totally worked fine.

So in my limited anecdotal experience, hosting it on vercel won’t save you either lol