[Manuel_D]

The deal is that a lot of static site generators are very complicated (perhaps needlessly so), despite the fact that static sites are technically very simple. Perhaps some people really leverage the power of Next.js, but when I tried it, I felt that it was super heavyweight when I just needed to template html files.

Of course, that doesn't mean I need to write my own. I just used a simpler SSG. In my case Jekyll.

[robertlagrant]

NextJS is far more than an SSG; it's a general-purpose Java/Typescript app development framework for frontends and backends.