[CyberRabbi]

I had the same question. I’m an experienced developer and I could not figure out the substance of what this product offers from a glance at its front page.

It vaguely seemed like a replacement for react but it’s hard to believe you could raise $40M for that so something else must be going on. I generally was under the impression that the industry was moving away from client side rendering since it’s so slow. At least I browse the web with JavaScript off by default.

[chrisweekly]

One of the major selling points of NextJS is precisely to address the issues with CSR (client-side rendering). It offers SSG (static site generation) for build-time rendering -- no client JS required. But also SSR (server-side rendering, ie at runtime), and automatic hydration for CSR too.

[wdb]

I just wished it wouldn't need all this __NEXT stuff which appears to lists all the possible routes/files.

[maelito]

React is just one lib used by Vercel

[eyelidlessness]

I’m using Preact X on a Next project and honestly it was more pain than I expected. Their Preact support is pinned to older versions with a different module structure.

I’ll be releasing my solution as a config wrapper (or offer as a PR for their Preact example) before I launch my site so other folks don’t need to go through the same process.