[ldthorne]

Time and time again, the Next.js (and Zeit) team blow me away. The rate at which they release new, high-quality versions of their products is astounding, especially given how few people are working on this full time -- it's basically just Tim Neutkens, who's insane: he's constantly pushing updates, reviewing PRs, and finds time to be very active on the support channel.

We use a bunch of Zeit's tools (particularly Next.js and its static export feature) at Common (https://www.common.com -- we're hiring!), and they're consistently such good and reliable products (doesn't hurt that they have a sharp focus on developer experience).

Congrats to Tim and to the entire Zeit team!

[bg0]

> it's basically just Tim Neutkens, who's insane

Insane is an understatement. The dude has helped me on the support channel more times than I can count. Forever grateful.

Not to mention pkg is pretty awesome too from Zeit

[subpixel]

> it's basically just Tim Neutkens, who's insane

when looking at tools to build a business on, that can be a liability no?

[ldthorne]

Fair, but my confidence in it stems from the giant community around Next.js. Zeit, a company with a good reputation among developers, works on it full time. It has contributions from other big-name OSS contributors and big companies (Netflix, Hulu, Nike, Ticketmaster, Jet, Auth0, Marvel, etc.). It's definitely a liability if it were truly just one individual developing it, but I suppose it's more that there's a small core of facilitators, with a giant OSS community around it.

[timneutkens]

As said elsewhere, I mostly act as a curator of a very large effort of hundreds of individuals. The project was actually co-created by several other people who work on infrastructure at ZEIT (e.g..: Naoyuki Kanezawa led all the initial releases, designed important parts of the framework, Arunoda Susiripala contributed the test harness and key build pipeline infrastructure, and so on).

[anonytrary]

Curious why you didn't mention Arunoda -- does he not work on it anymore. IIRC Arunoda started Next.js right after (perhaps because of) leaving Meteor ecosystem.

[kabes]

I don't think he created it, but he was there early on and works for Zeit. Still eternal grateful for him creating kadira.

[anonytrary]

Wow, TIL. Also a very nice display of Cunningham's law: "the best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer."

[timneutkens]

I'm going to post the same answer I gave in another thread on the initial post:

As said elsewhere, I mostly act as a curator of a very large effort of hundreds of individuals. The project was actually co-created by several other people who work on infrastructure at ZEIT (e.g..: Naoyuki Kanezawa led all the initial releases, designed important parts of the framework, Arunoda Susiripala contributed the test harness and key build pipeline infrastructure, and so on).

[spikefromspace]

Completely agree! I have used next.js in multiple projects now and have gotten very fast turnaround on any submitted issues. Love the product and the team!