[dabber]

> as a relative newbie to web dev (with limited time and focus), is Next.js my way to go?

Obviously "it depends (TM)" on a bunch of things but for most of those things, Next.js is a safe bet, sure.

It's a (the?) leader in the React framework space and the ecosystem reflects that (e.g. most problems or decisions a newbie would run into is likely to have a trove of docs/blogs/tutorials/ect. available to get past them quickly, plenty of options for hosting, marketable as a skill if that's what you're into, fine DevEx all things considered, it'll likely be around for quite some time even if vercel shuts down tomorrow.) The same is true for React.

I'd personally go with Remix though :)

[Aeolun]

I have both Next and Remix projects and I far prefer Next. While Remix is cool, and they were kind of the original, their build and dev process has become really bloated, so any change now means waiting a minute for the whole server to restart.