[aliston]

I've been out of the web-dev game for a while, and have been pretty blown away by how much has changed. Suddenly, it seems like everything is a 1-page application, SSR, and doing a lot more on the client than I was used to back when jQuery was the standard. Next.js seems like a pretty beginner-friendly way to get a lot of the "new stuff" without having to learn the multiple technologies in a MERN stack.

On the other hand, it seems like a lot of folks (particularly in this thread), think of Next.js as a well-intentioned, but unstable shiny toy that more or less breaks when you try to do more complicated stuff. Is that accurate? If so, what is the standard stack that most companies are using these days to build high quality web apps?

[Spixel_]

That would be Remix: https://remix.run

See: https://www.epicweb.dev/why-i-wont-use-nextjs

[chasd00]

heh yeah it seems like there's a lot of hate here for a release with only 4 bullet points. I'm using NextJS to learn react for my own interest (i don't do front-end work like this at work) it seems reasonable enough to me. My biggest complaint so far is getting use to everything being named page.tsx, layout.tsx etc and directory naming conventions having so much control over functionality. Otherwise, it seems like a typical Nodejs stack with Express abstracted away and React included.