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Even with his bias you still saw a lot of agreement to his criticisms on the NextJS subreddit (which you would assume was biased towards NextJS) and the React subreddit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nextjs/comments/17giozq/why_i_wont_...

https://www.reddit.com/r/reactjs/comments/17gl76d/why_i_wont...




Discussion seemed most opposed to Vercel-ification and churn.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38018217


I'll be posting a full response to this, which I think you'll find very interesting (from the opposite point of view). Stay tuned.


looking forward it!

Last time I truly used NextJS was in 2020 (it was v9), and that was only to make a statically generated brochure type site. I had started the site with Gatsby and didn't love Gatsby, so I switched to NextJS and loved it.

Recently I did start up a Next v13 project using the new App Router. But I haven't gotten that far past the initial scaffold and creating a couple components. Seeing all of these complaints about v13, especially the App Router, are making me want to scrap that and use something else.





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