I wanted to check out Factor a couple of weeks ago and got stuck on the installation step, an error about it using esmodules for lodash if I remember correctly. The docs were behind an authwall and there was a forum full of spam and one thread with the same issue 4 months old and one reply 2 months old by a user who had the same issue and no resolution. All in all that was a poor experience for me. Granted, it was under development but it doesn’t seem like there was much community at the time and no clear development path either. I checked the site again after your comment and it seems they’ve launched now so I’ll check again, although I’m mostly interested in a headless CMS which isn’t what Factor is trying to be.
As for Next, I’ve played around with it and I liked the built-in support for Head, Image and Link. The SSR and lazy loading is amazing and should be the default for every tool, I hate that CRA does not support this out of the box. I was surprised when I tried to export my test and I couldn’t find an output folder though, and even more surprised and disappointed when I found you had to do `next build && next export` which immediately threw an error because the default loading behaviour of the Image component relies on Vercel hosting to work.
As for Next, I’ve played around with it and I liked the built-in support for Head, Image and Link. The SSR and lazy loading is amazing and should be the default for every tool, I hate that CRA does not support this out of the box. I was surprised when I tried to export my test and I couldn’t find an output folder though, and even more surprised and disappointed when I found you had to do `next build && next export` which immediately threw an error because the default loading behaviour of the Image component relies on Vercel hosting to work.