[brillout]

Open alternative to Next.js: https://vite-plugin-ssr.com/ (I'm its author).

Open:

- Choose any UI framework you want (React/Vue/Solid/...)

- A lot more flexible than Next.js (e.g. i18n and base assets configuration are fundamentally more flexible)

- Keep architectural control (vite-plugin-ssr is more like a library and doesn't put itself in the middle of your stack)

- Use your favorite tools. And manually integrate them with vite-plugin-ssr (for full control without surprises).

- Deploy anywhere (and easily integrate with your existing server/deploy strategy)

- Open roadmap

- Ecosystem friendly

The upcoming "V1 Design" has been meticulously designed to be simple yet powerful. Once nested layouts, single route files, and typesafe links are implemented vite-plugin-ssr will be pretty much feature complete.

Note that, with vite-plugin-ssr, you implement your own renderer, which may or may not be something you want/need/like to do. Built-in renderers are coming and you’ll then get a zero-config DX like Next.js (minus extras like image processing as we believe they should be separate libraries).

Web dev isn't a zero sum game - a vibrant and healthy ecosystem of competing tools can co-exist. (I'm close to be able to make a living with sponsors.)

Vision is to make a truly open and collaborative foundation for meta frameworks.

Let me know if you have any questions.

[eric-burel]

Next.js pseudo-alternatives are usually subpar, because they misunderstand Next.js approach and implement a very simplified vision of it (eg they can't even tell the difference between client-side rendered SPA and HTML export). This one doesn't seem to fall in this trap, from the documentation it seems a very well thought library. Great work!

[iamsaitam]

Even though you go on explaining what you mean by "open", seeing that the common definition is "open (source)", I'd go for a different qualifier.

[3np]

It's available under MIT License hosted on GitHub. Am I missing something?

https://github.com/brillout/vite-plugin-ssr/blob/main/LICENS...

[brillout]

Yea, we've plans to improve communicating that. (Although we do plan to stick to the word "open".)