Next.js is great but can't compare to Laravel, they are not for the same use case. Laravel comes with an ORM, a job queue, a mail framework... And it can also scaffold a complete auth system for you
You can just add Bull/Temporal, Prisma/Knex and Braze and you can swap stuff when needed but I understand that for new people it's nice to have everything integrated when starting out.
Still seems like most people write separate backend and Nest.js is most popular. I am not a biggest fan yet personally.
Still seems like most people write separate backend and Nest.js is most popular. I am not a biggest fan yet personally.