[verdverm]

I just stopped using their NextJS project because you can no longer self host the middleware, they now only support edge runtime and several libraries don't work with it.

I'm calling this situation Fauxpen Source. The recent moves definitely feel anticompetitive or at least trying to force you into using their products

I'm migrating to vite+vike (next/nuxt like experience for any framework)

[Rauchg]

Middleware does work with self-hosting[1]. It’s a more limited runtime that’s based on web standard APIs, which creates optionality for running it in high performance / resource constrained scenarios.

[1] https://nextjs.org/docs/app/building-your-application/deploy...

[verdverm]

It _can_ work, but _won't_ for most real world workloads

Beyond the runtime limitations, it is poorly designed and requires you to effectively write a router when the rest of the system has automatic routing assembly