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Yeah matches my experience. It’s just so much complexity just to get SSR. I’ve worked at places that used it for b2b SaaS apps with no public web part, so the SSR is just a big liability… whyyyyy

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I use it for my web site where SSR is critical for SEO. For app development I don’t use Nextjs. I think it is designed for web sites (as opposed to web apps) and it is great for this purpose

yep this is how i use it and it has worked out really great...sometimes i wonder what people try to do that they have all these issues

Reminds me of VC backed framework Meteor that was attempting to do full stack JS and collapsed under its own tech debt.

I'd honestly love to use something that delivered on Meteor's goals. Next.js ain't it though lol.

I was pretty involved in their stack back in the day, it was a good alternative to Django at the time for simple plug and play admin apps, and to this day i think they had the simplest OAuth setup of any framework I've used.

The real issues were the super tight coupling with MongoDB and their decision to roll their own package ecosystem instead of just using npm from day one.

I think Meteor is finally starting to fully overcome the tech debt from the second half of the last decade. They're in a recent Node.js release, and the next version will integrate a modern bundler (Rspack) in its tooling.

Lots of apps are still stuck in Meteor 2.x hell because of the dependency on Fibers though.

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