[gureddio]

Next.js does indeed have those positives, but it steers you towards paid services (prisma and vercel)

[simse]

I suppose. But it's totally viable to use Next.js without using anything from Vercel.

[gureddio]

Yes but you do fight the framework in some cases. Take for example persisting a database connection, or a pool of connections. A totally normal use case for a server side framework