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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: 0.208s | 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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motorest ◴[02 Sep 25 12:17 UTC] No.45102115[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

That is my opinion as well. Things like SSR are forced onto users with a very smooth onboarding, but I'm concerned that in practical terms this perceived smoothness can only persist if the likes of us pay the likes of Vercel for hosting our work.

In some degree I feel the whole React ecosystem might have ended up being captured by a corporation. Hopefully it wasn't. Let's see.

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1. lubujackson ◴[02 Sep 25 14:48 UTC] No.45103838[source]▶
Looking at history, many popular frameworks have been "captured by a corporation" or in the case of React (FB) and .NET (MS), created by one. We mere SEs ride the wave of corporate whims, but everyone knows if and when they tighten the noose too hard everyone will move on to the next hot new thing.