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by v0idzer0 1101 days ago
> I can't avoid feeling that the new direction taken by Next.js is not designed to help developers, but to help Vercel sell React. You can't really sell a service around SPAs: once compiled, a SPA is a single JS file that can be hosted for free anywhere. But a server-side rendered app needs a server to run. And a server is a product that can be sold. Perhaps I'm a conspiracy theorist, but I don't see another reason to break the React ecosystem like this.

Feels like this inevitably ends in a fork. It was a hell of a run though!
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ilrwbwrkhv 1101 days ago
Vercel has raised an enormous amount of money and they are stuck with making bizarre choices like this or selling other tech brazenly for higher prices. That is why pg recommends not raising a huge round.
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ivanfeli 1101 days ago
I don't get this argument. Who says the server needs to be Vercel. You can just npm run start on any hosting provider.
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