Next.js or something else?
Hi everyone, I'm new here but have been watching theo's videos on YouTube for a while and sometimes he roast next.js and sometimes compliment. Now I was gonna push my team in office to start using next.js typescript based to create websites but now I'm thinking is should we use next.js? Or is there something much better? Because we usually do a direct deploy to server not using vercel/netlify etc like an EC2 instance of AWS.
So what are your thoughts Next.js or some other framework we should go with?
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You can deploy Next.js without Vercel. I wouldn't use EC2, but idk what kind of websites you're building.
What kind of websites are you building? What's your current stack? Who's the target user?
Go with what your team knows how to use
Depends on what you want to build
Next.js is packed with advanced features like: server-side rendering (SSR), static generation, API routes, middleware, edge functions, file-system routing, and image optimization.
If your site is just a static page, then these features are cruise missiles aimed at paper planes. You’ll spend time configuring things you’ll never use, and the dev experience gets bloated quickly.
It’s like driving a food truck to work because you wanted to bring your sandwich for lunch, haha.