Now I'm doing the same thing, and decided to go with Deno because I wanted to learn JavaScript.
Does something like Next replace something like Deno, or does it work with it?
Reading online there seems to be a lot of confusion about what NextJS is with questions like is it better than nodejs, is it a backend server etc.
It runs on a server, on nodejs, but it doesn't provide what most people think of as the backend. It serves the frontend files. It does a bunch of extra things for the frontend.
Presumably there is a way to run your own api code alongside it in the same node instances. Not sure if that's wise or not.
I personally prefer to start off with a plain react project with vite as the bundler and then host that statically without the extra SSR stuff. For an app website I think that's a better approach. For a informational website I'd probably look to other solutions.
Let me rephrase: Is NextJS a full back-end, or is it only for presentation? Would you use it in combination with something like Deno, or instead of it?
Of course the NextJS application could call out to a Deno backend as well, but the external app is not required.
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