The core React documentation explicitly points you to nextjs and says "this is how you should build react apps."

multiple other comments sharing my experience and expanding on it.

Just because you didn’t see the issues other people are encountering, everybody else’s experiences are invalid?

See the various other comments for concrete examples of why nextjs sucks and the team at vercel is incompetent when it comes to auth, middleware, caching, and just generally maintaining a usable framework without brutal migrations and api breakages.

They have made egregious mistakes that go far beyond "move fast and break things" and well into "we should have the lawyers join this call".

- fragile under load and very difficult to debug SSR issues

- inconsistent behavior between hosted and self hosted versions of the same code

- horrible build times, like laughably bad multi-minute builds for trivial code bases

- crappy directory based routing system with lots of weird gotchas

- schizo identity JAMstack -> serverless -> ssr -> now its microvms + ai

- multiple hilariously long running GH issues where the dev team is thrashing around trying to debug their own black box framework

- "framework" that barely provides any of the primitives necessary to build web apps

- major breaking changes around core features like routing that require painful migrations

- general sloppiness, churn, and insecurity that comes from being part of the nodejs ecosystem

Thats not even getting into all of the shady patterns vercel uses to lock you into their overpriced hosting.

I've been a part of multiple teams that decided to build apps using NextJS, and while the FE is not my responsibility I typically got pulled in to help troubleshoot random issues. It was a complete waste of time in almost every case, and in one case resulted in the entire FE team being let go because they were unable to ship anything on time.

Vercel being involved is a huge red flag.

NextJS is a pile of garbage, and their platform is absurdly expensive and leans heavily on vendor lock in.

I'd really like an AI tool with absolute security I can trust to trawl through my emails and reconcile invoices against my bank records.

Are many HN members in Zürich? I was suprised to see this type of news with so many points, though it's quite amusing to see the mixture of different topics in the front page.

Presumably the author encountered it by accident and then thought it was an amusing contrast with the Animal Crossing setting.