[jaredgorski]

I probably should’ve clarified that this stack is geared toward our enterprise-facing cloud dashboard. There’s a lot of data flying around and it needs to be displayed real-time. But most websites really don’t need this stuff. Front end needs to learn what backend has figured out: the stack has to fit the use-case.

I probably should’ve titled this post better, since I’ve been wanting to write more about how to make appropriate front end tooling decisions in general... not just our extremely dynamic use-case. The entire web seems to be running bloated React apps despite most sites’ needs being solved by the old stuff or new things like 11ty.

Just to clarify as well (since I didn’t in the post), we’re still using Next despite nuking the SSR because the filesystem-based server is useful to us and we like the patterns they provide for running server-side code.