[darepublic]

Next.js is a very decent React based SSR framework imo, and not sure vue is more popular

[baddox]

Gatsby is another very popular SSR framework that uses React.

[iaml]

There's no reason to pick gatsby over next nowadays, next can do everything gatsby can and in a sane, reusable manner.

[andrewingram]

I agree in the broad sense, but this isn't entirely true.

Feature-wise, Next does seem like a superset of Gatsby, especially since it can support server, static and hybrid rendering models. Architecturally, Gatsby does have some advantages. They're not ones that are particularly important to me, but I don't think it's fair to ignore them:

- The plugin model is more sophisticated, and there's a huge ecosystem of them which can solve most common use cases.

- The ability to use a unified data graph means page invalidation and rebuilds upon data changes can be done automatically at a very granular level -- because it's possible to keep track of which pages would be affected by every piece of data.

I'd add that I have issues with both, which leads me more to Next.js because it has a lower level of vendor lock-in compared to Gatsby. Anecdotally, migrating a small site from Gatsby to Next.js replaced 150 Gatsby-related imports with 10 Next.js ones.

[eivarv]

Gatsby's a static site generator, isn't it? That's different from SSR.

[floydnoel]

there’s an SSR plugin for Gatsby. also, Next has the option to do SSG.

[rk06]

parent is talking about servr side frameworks like laravel, django, asp.net core mvc etc. Not node.js SSR framework

For those, it is much more easier to add vue as a script tag. also easier to setup Vue, compared to react.